The Fraud Investigations Workshop

The Fraud Investigations Workshop

Whether you wish to learn new skills or to polish existing ones to be in line with best practice, this week provides you with all you need to become today’s modern internal auditor. It will also give you the opportunity to improve your own report writing meet the needs of your readers and inspire action.

Part 1: Fundamentals of Internal Auditing

In this three-day seminar, attendees will learn the concepts of traditional and operational auditing and gain proven tools and techniques for performing effective audits. You will get a solid background in the basics of documenting and evaluating internal control and fieldwork techniques. Using specifically formulated case exercises, participants will examine the critical elements of internal auditing: assessing risk, flowcharting, designing flexibility into the audit program, performing the audit and applying audit results to solve business problems. You will focus on and put into practice the communications skills associated with internal auditing: conferencing with customers, writing audit findings and selling audit recommendations.

Part 2: Audit Report Writing

Fraud resistance Strategies - The course aims to provide anyone working in any way with fraud and corruption in organisations with the resources, tools and skills to help their organisations live up to expectations. The sessions will be highly practical with case exercises and scenarios based on real experiences and interactive risk brainstorming techniques, all supported by informative lecture sessions.

Why attend this course?

• Understand the role of the internal audit department
• Learn the standards required for the professional practice of Internal Audit
• Improve your interpersonal skills and interview strategies
• Explore risk assessment strategies and risk based internal auditing
• Develop the tools and techniques required to perform a successful audit programme
• Gain the expertise and confidence to develop well-structured reports with clear messages
• Deliver the key messages that focus on risk and get results
• Understand the different needs and expectations of audit report readers
• Practice each step of the report writing process, from thinking about your audience to organizing your ideas to meet their needs, to choosing the appropriate format and tone, to crafting and streamlining your writing.