Clinic session - Increasing the Impact of Internal Audit Reports

Date: TBA
Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
CPE/CPD: 3 hrs

Objectives
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This half day seminar to help you improve your oral and written communication skills and increase the impact of your audit reports, in particular:

- Understand the role of communication for the internal audit
- Develop interpersonal skills to proactively and constructively interact with the organisation.
- Apply the standards and best practices in writing internal audit reports
- Handle successfully with your audit findings
- Present your recommendations to management
- Use techniques to formulate audit findings and recommendations

The seminar is very practical with exercises and short cases to help you apply the techniques and skills for effective communication; it will also cover the professional standards, best practices and some “change catalysts” behavioral skills introduced by the Internal Audit Competency Framework recently issued by the IIA Research Foundation (Institute of Internal Auditors)


Who should attend?
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Internal auditors, external auditors, consultants, risk managers and others involved in providing recommendations to management and boards on management systems and processes to improve internal controls and continuous business improvements.

Outline
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Part 1 – The auditors communication skills along the audit process

Programme Introduction
Understanding the need for effective internal audit reports
- Revisiting the role and objectives of the internal audit process
- The increasing role of communication in internal audit and the reasons why
- What are the difficulties we face with internal audit reports?
- The position of the IIA standards
- Understanding the challenges for the internal auditor
- Cross-cultural factors in reporting audit findings

Review of best practices from surveys and trends in the internal audit profession
Interacting with the organisation along the audit process
- Audit announcements
- Conduct the closing meeting
- presenting your recommendations to management

Simulation exercise
Best practices in writing internal audit reports (in order to help overcome the difficulties).
- What are the basic quality requirements you should know about internal audit reports?
- What to do and not do: Quality criteria of an Internal Audit report
- report layouts
- the reporting process
- analysing the cause of problems
- associating audit findings with COSO components and objectives

Exercise: evaluation of internal audit report using a list of quality criteria

Language: English

Facilitator
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Jean Yves Le Corre, Msc, Sloan Fellow, CIA

Jean Yves Le Corre is the Founder and Executive Director of a consultancy specialized in learning services for cross-cultural auditing and performance management in China and the Asia-Pacific region.

Jean-Yves is a former trainer in Paris, a Certified Internal Auditor and a Sloan Fellow from London Business School; he has more than ten years of professional experience in internal audit in large multinationals where he led internal audit teams.

Jean-Yves developed extensive experience in coaching and training internal auditors in Asia and especially in China where he conducted +50 seminars over the past two years. Jean Yves is based in China where he currently provides advisory and assistance to multinationals and Chinese companies on internal control and risk management projects.

If you are having trouble registering online then you may download and fill out this registration form and fax it to (65) 67490193.