RBIA Seminars

Public RBIA courses are scheduled several times each year in the USA.  The regularly scheduled public RBIA courses readily facilitate ongoing training for audit departments. In addition, in-house courses are held on a worldwide basis and are scheduled to meet our customers needs. RBIA has been held in Europe, the Middle East, and in Australia.

The RBIA course is five days in duration. Three days involve discussion of the value, theory, organization and methodology concepts. The remaining two days demonstrate the application of RBIA to two difficult case studies that have been derived from real life audits.

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Program Objectives

Today's fact of corporate life: companies treat audit departments as overhead cost centers; every overhead cost function must produce value greater than cost to survive; companies want their audit department to help improve the company's control environment, not play "point the finger" games. RBIA is based on these common sense business principles. You will learn how to run the audit department on business principles, not traditional audit theoretical concepts. You will learn how to audit the risks that threaten your customer's ability to be successful. You will learn how to deliver value greater than cost on every audit that you do.

Program Content

Theory

• Audit Value Governance-Management-Performance Tool
• Business Function Analysis Tool
• Limits of Risk Tool
• Management Control Structure Tool
• Business Controls for Processes & Systems Tool
• Sarbanes - Oxley 404 software tool

Methodology

• Developing the Audit Universe
• Audit Value Circle
• Identifying the Audit Customer
• Determining Business Risks
• Team Success Objectives
• Limits of Risk
• Management Control Structure
• Forming Risk Driven Hypothesis
• Testing and the Standard of Proof
• Communicating the Results
• Documentation
• Continuous Monitoring

Organization

• Hierarchies vs Teams
• Audit Department Organization Structure
• Roles of Team Members
• Scheduling
• Success Measures

What You Will Learn

• Define and measure audit value
• Select audit subjects to significantly increase audit value to key audit customers (not middle management)
• Deal with critical audit issues over project or process re- engineering governance
• Apply fundamental control concepts in business systems and processes
• Assess and measure business risk to identify and eliminate over control
• Identify and appraise management control structures to minimize the time spent testing detailed controls
• Reduce audit management overheads by organizing in self-directed audit teams
• Apply fast and inexpensive audit tests to reduce audit cost and increase value

Who Should Attend

• General Auditors looking for new ideas
• Audit managers looking for ways to increase productivity
• Auditors who want to learn to work in teams

Course Level and Prerequisites

Intermediate. There are no prerequisites or advanced preparation.

Instructional Method

Group-live offering.

Product Code: 804
CPE Credits: 40 hrs
Duration: 5 days
Price: $1,395.00

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The Best of the Best for 2006

RBIA Gold Medal
Ms. Martha Mimica, Florida Power & Light

RBIA Silver Medal
Mr. Bill Egan, Scotts Company

RBIA Bronze Medal
Mr. Dan Ashley, Qwest Communications

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Updated: February 2, 2007