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Seminar Objective Welcome to this 3-day Information Technology General Controls for the Public Sector Internal Auditors course that is aimed at building the capacity and competencies of public sector Internal Auditors. This training course enables you to build the necessary knowledge, skills and values that will enable you to improve your own levels and standards of service excellence.

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Key Takeaways Master the intricacies of managing an internal audit activity, including proficiency, due professional care, and establishing risk-based plans. Gain a deep understanding of governance, risk management, and control, with a focus on organisational culture, ethics, and corporate social responsibility. Develop expertise in identifying, evaluating, and responding to fraud risks, including prevention, detection, and forensic auditing techniques.

Engagement Planning (50%) Determine engagement objectives and scope May include but is not limited to: Recognize how to apply Topical Requirements when determining objectives and scope Recognize elements to be considered in the development of engagement objectives, including regulatory requirements; the organization’s strategy and objectives; governance, risk management, and control processes; risk appetite and tolerance; internal policies; previous audit reports; work of other assurance providers; and whether the engagement is intended to provide assurance or advisory services Identify and document relevant scope limitations during planning Evaluate approaches for managing and documenting stakeholder requests Identify effective methods for addressing changes in objectives and scope

Course provides auditors with the knowledge and tools to shift from traditional periodic audits to real-time, data-driven continuous auditing. Continuous auditing is an evolving approach that leverages technology to monitor and analyse data and transactions in real time, offering enhanced assurance and a proactive risk management approach.

Course provides auditors with the knowledge and tools to shift from traditional periodic audits to real-time, data-driven continuous auditing. Continuous auditing is an evolving approach that leverages technology to monitor and analyse data and transactions in real time, offering enhanced assurance and a proactive risk management approach

This course will provide audit executives and managers with tools and techniques to assist them in auditing governance, strategy, ethics and risk management, ensuring that their internal audit functions comply with Standard 2100.

Internal Auditors continuously face Leadership challenges in assisting their organizations to achieve their strategic objectives. Chief Audit Executives, their deputies and internal audit managers need to work closely with business leaders, boards, audit committees, peers and their own audit teams. Now more than ever, leadership, stakeholder relations and influencing skills are becoming as important as managing a team, planning and delivering insightful internal audit assurance and consulting engagements. This course aims to introduce internal auditors to various leadership development areas with the objective to encourage them to participate in further leadership development interventions.

Gathering information from interviews is an integral part of the audit process but getting to the truth requires more than simple questions. Learn significantly more about an organisation when you conduct interviews that probe more deeply, follow up on signs of potential deception and politely, but assertively, pursue evasiveness.

This is a refresher course for anyone who has previously attended the 2-day BSQP, 3-day PEQA or 5-day QAIP courses. The course will bring you up to date with latest developments and assist you in persuing continuous conformance with the International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF)

How will this course benefit you? Assessing organizational governance requires a firm understanding of the characteristics, structure, and accountability processes prevalent in international, national, regional, and local governments. At the same time, governance structures and processes must be customized according to the organization’s complexity and political, cultural, economic, and regulatory environments. Regardless of the nature of the organization, a principles-based approach to assessing organizational governance will help auditors provide assurance that the public is being well-served.

According to a News24 article dated 04 December 2017, South Africa has an “ethics problem”. As a result, Internal auditors are facing increased ethical challenges and how they handle them determines their own value and their organization’s value. This training course contains videos, case studies and practical exercises that promote discussion of potential ethical dilemmas that auditors may encounter and how to audit the ethical climate of an organisation. The course is structured in 4 modules going from global, to country, to organisational to personal.