Advanced Strategic Internal Auditing

Course details

Course Introduction:
The Advanced Strategic Internal Auditing course at LCT equips delegates with advanced skills in strategic internal auditing. Participants will learn to enhance audit processes, integrate risk management strategies, and apply cutting-edge techniques to ensure organisational effectiveness. By the end of the course, delegates will be adept at aligning audits with strategic goals, improving oversight, and driving organisational success through sophisticated audit practices.

Course Outcomes:
Describe the role, benefits and purpose of IFRS
Engage with all key stakeholders
Ensure compliance with financial reporting obligations
Identify the key steps in implementing the standards

Who Should Attend:
Managers and executives from all sectors, particularly those using or planning to use IFRS and want to know acquire the tools needed to understand and apply the standards:

Those who are new appointed into a senior financial role and want to find their way around the key standards
Those who work in the private sector who are looking for best practice application of IFRS
Those who work in parts of the public sector who are or will be using IFRS
Financial planning practitioners who want to update their skills and knowledge
Those who are for the first-time adoption of the standards
Financial analysts, auditors, accountants
Audit team members who need to update their knowledge

Course Topics:
Review of Key Audit Function Foundations

Review of key action points
Developing organisational specific risk matrices
Global best practice case studies andamp; analysis
Key action points Delegate action plan development


Risk Based Auditing

Identifying areas of risk
Classifying and quantifying risk areas
Developing audit and re-audit frequency in line with risk
Overview of emerging threats


Conducting Effective Audits

The auditors role as a consultant
Utilising audit reporting to inform organisational policy development
Continuous improvement initiatives and supervision
Measuring improvement toolkit for objective measurement and demonstration of audit output improvements


Financial Crime Compliance

Record keeping procedures
Controls to identify potentially suspicious activities
Trade finance transactions
Trade processing controls by processing staff
Red flagging procedures
Pre-determined thresholds systems and controls
Escalations
Actions taken by senior management
Evidence and awareness of senior management evidencing how crime risks evolve in organisational type of business


Engaging with the Audit Structure

Making effective recommendations and business cases
Presenting information effectively
OSCOLA (Oxford University Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities) for internal auditors
Contributing meaningfully to the development of the long term audit strategy
Upgrading the profile of internal audit within the organisation


Financial crime compliance

Effective post audit de-briefing
Root cause analysis and remediation recommendations
Developing departmental action plans with stakeholders: contributing to the delivery of compliance
Managing conflict situations


Use of technology in combating financial crime and cyber crime

Overview of the digitalisation of risk management
Big data analytics: mapping indicators of fraud money laundering bribery and corruption sanction breaches and market manipulation
The holistic approach to risk management: effectiveness efficiency scalability oversight
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM): customising and consolidating automated manual processes
Overview of transaction monitoring and threshold values for internal auditors
Trade surveillance software and correlation analysis: from repetitive behaviours to manipulating behaviours
Testing financial crime compliance systems: Data chosen cleansing articulation and understanding before feeding into the compliance system
Assessing fitness and operational efficiency of organisational systems and controls to prevent and combat cyber-crime risks: Phishing Webcam manager File hijacking Keylogging Screenshot manager Ad clicker Hacking and distributed denial of services (DDOS)


Effective Linkage of Organisational Systems

Overview of core organisational systems Finance HR Governance ESG
Closing the loopholes to assist in legal prosecution case efficiency
Ensuring good staff policy compliance
Establishing and managing staff register of interests and conflicts of interest


Engaging with External Auditors

The key role and objectives of external audit
Ensuring availability of evidence through defensible in court procedures for situations faced
Detecting severe but plausible scenarios
Overcoming organisational cultural challenges
Capturing and maximising earning and growth opportunities from the external audit