Instructor Led SOX Training

Corporate Governance and the Internal Audit Function Corporate Governance and the Internal Audit Function: This 1 day workshop aims to develop and enhance the internal auditora ™s understanding of corporate governance and how it can be evaluated. It provides participants with the knowledge and skills they need to understand the role and responsibilities of internal audit in the context of corporate governance and their responsibilities to  more...

Operational Auditing Operational Auditing: This 1 day program that examines how internal audit ties into managementa ™s objectives, understanding the difference between control and business objectives, understanding the components of a business unit, understanding operational control frameworks and operational auditing tools and techniques (VFM, CSA).  more...

Improving Audit Processes Improving Audit Processes: This 1 day program geared towards smaller audit shops that looks at how to develop risk based audit programs as well as working towards quality assurance (how to deal with independence, improving processes and communication, how to add value and avoid redundancies).  more...

Risk Management Risk Management: This 1 day program teaches participants how risk fits into an organizationa ™s strategic framework, how to identify risks within their own organizations and what tools can be used to manage and/ or mitigate those risks. It is targeted specifically for individuals with responsibility in risk management and is designed as a a how-toa ™ workshop providing participants  more...

Soft controls Internal Controls - COSO CoCo Soft controls (Internal Controls - COSO & CoCo): this day program focuses on the difference between hard and soft controls, the importance of soft controls and the role they play in an organization. It also provides an overview of the different control frameworks (primarily COSO and CoCo) and covers how to evaluate soft controls using different tools and techniques. There is a  more...

Facilitation Skills Facilitation Skills: This 2 hour hands-on workshop is designed to help give participants some ideas on how to use workshop facilitation to identify risk and control issues. The workshop includes a number of case studies and role play exercises where participants will facilitate "mock" workshops on selected topics. In this instructor-led course, you will learn understand the different  more...

Interviewing Influencing Skills Interviewing & Influencing Skills: This day hands-on workshop covers methodologies on how to conduct more focused interviews, become an effective listener, and how to extract information from a difficult interviewee. This instructor-led course will explain different phases of an interview, planning interview, conducting the interview, and closing the interview. The workshop includes role  more...

Basic Internal Auditing Skills Basic Internal Auditing Skills: This 2 day program provides participants with the basic tools to be an effective internal auditor. Working through a case study, the course starts with overall audit planning and finishes with a written audit report. This workshop will provide participants with the knowledge and skills they need to: - Understand the role and responsibilities of internal  more...

Advanced Report Writing Skills Advanced Report Writing Skills: This day workshop is designed to assist auditors in writing reports to best effect. Topics covered include writing for your reader, writing style and grammar. This seminar aims to develop and enhance the softer internal audit skills of report writing. This seminar will be particularly valuable to members who are newer to the senior levels of internal  more...

Presentation Skills Presentation Skills: This 2 hour hands-on workshop covers how to be a better presenter and deliver a message to best effect. Topics include proper preparation, use of different media, understand how to present a topic to best effect, and how different presentation styles will impact the message. Hand-outs and exercises will be included.  more...

Sarbanes Oxley Act SOx - Principles Implementation Providing a thorogh understanding of the act. An instructor lead highly interactive session that provides a new learning experience. Many templates and formats are provided in the session to enable the participants to implement the SOx compliance framework very effectively and efficiently. Anyone who needs to implement/ ensure framework for SOx compliance can attend this program. The  more...

Sarbanes-Oxley A Road Map to Compliance This two-day seminar has been developed to arm you with specific tools and techniques you can use to help your organization comply with the full intent of Sarbanes-Oxley...and position IA to take advantage of the opportunities the Act presents. You will cover the letter and the spirit of the law, focus on the critical nature of the risks it addresses, and learn the controls that must be in  more...

Using Risk Assessment to Build Individual Audit Programs In this revealing three-day seminar you will learn how to use risk assessment -- generally applied to annual audit plans -- to help build individual audit programs that will boost auditor productivity and provide the control assurance required by Sarbanes-Oxley. You will explore the differences between traditional, control-based risk assessment and a new, business risk-based approach that  more...

Testing for Fraud in Key Financial Accounts Never before have auditors been under so much pressure to ensure the veracity of the organizationa ™s financial reporting. The AICPA statement on auditing standards increases the responsibility of the auditing profession to detect misleading and false reporting of financial results. In addition, passage of Sarbanes-Oxley by Congress raises the bar on Audita ™s accountability. In  more...

Fraud Auditing Boot Camp When it comes to fraud, crime does pay. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners reports that fraud and abuse cost typical US organizations 7% of revenues. This amounts to $994 billion dollars annually when applied to the US gross domestic product. Add to this astronomical figure the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA, and PCAOB, and it is clear why finding and preventing fraud is a  more...

Internal Audit University In this intensive four-day seminar you will master fundamental operational auditing techniques and learn how to use a risk-based approach to enhance your audits of the Purchasing, Marketing, Human Resources, Information Technology (IT), Management, Finance/ Treasury, and Accounting functions. You will explore the objectives of major business operation areas and learn how to identify the key  more...

IT Auditing and Controls Internal or operational auditors in today's complex organization must understand information systems and be able to function within a technical environment. This intensive, three-day seminar outlines the concepts of information technology you need to know in order to understand the audit concerns in the IT environment. You will learn the necessary controls for application systems -- the  more...