An Intensive 5-day Training Course
Risk-Based Auditing
Focusing the Audit Attention on the Things that Really Matter
UPCOMING SESSIONS
| Date | Venue | Fee | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15-19 Dec 2025 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 23-27 Feb 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 01-05 Jun 2026 | London - UK | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 14-18 Dec 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
Training Course Overview
While many Internal Audit functions claim to have adopted a risk-based approach, few have fully integrated this process to add measurable value.
By participating in this Risk-Based Auditing training course, you will learn how to elevate your audit approach by developing a strategic audit plan that clearly defines what to audit and the frequency of audits, as well as how to deliver fully integrated risk-based audit assignments. This will significantly enhance the level of assurance you provide.
This training course will feature:
- A world-renowned strategic audit planning tool to enable audit priorities to be set with confidence, and is simple to explain to senior management
- How to identify over-managed risks during the audit process
- Techniques to develop an integrated process whereby audit programmes can be linked directly with the risk registers
- How to ensure that your audit plan is fully coordinated with the other assurance providers in your business
- A step by step guide to completing a risk-based audit
- How to challenge management’s evaluation of the risks
Training Course Objectives
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Deliver financially measurable value from the risk-based audit process
- Audit major areas of risk in your business with confidence
- Challenge the risk process (by ensuring that inherent, residual and target risk is identified for each event)
- Evaluate business risk appetite and ensure this is effectively managed
- Plan risk-based assignments efficiently and effectively
Designed for
Anyone that needs to fully understand the risk-based audit approach – or to take their existing approach to the next level
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Heads of Audit
- Audit managers
- Senior auditors and team leaders
- Auditors responsible for developing or implementing a risk-based approach
- Other assurance professionals such as those in Compliance and QA functions who are wanting to develop their Risk based approach
- Managers and Directors of business functions – to aid their knowledge of a risk-based audit approach
Learning Methods
This dynamic training course will utilise a variety of proven learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes various exercises and case studies to provide practical application of the tools and techniques. A series of valuable tools and templates will be provided in electronic format – to take away and use immediately.
The Course Outline
- The modern risk-based audit (RBA) approach
- How risk-based audit has changed the face of auditing
- The importance of dealing with the audit risks not just the business risks
- RBA and ERM (Enterprise risk management)
- The ISO 31000 international risk standard
- Auditing strategic risks
- Risk Workshops
- Other methods of risk identification (including root cause analysis and Monte Carlo analysis)
- Assessment of Risk Mitigation
- Determining the preventative, detective and corrective controls
- Auditing the ERM process
- Assessing the Key risk indicators
- The Internal audit strategy
- The audit Universe
- Preparing a strategic audit plan
- RBA KPI’s
- Developing the annual plans
- The use of audit technology (CAAT’s)
- Planning a risk-based audit (Initial brainstorming)
- The risk-based audit step by step
- The RBA programme – worked example
- The RBA deliverables
- Monitoring of action plans
- Determining an audit risk and control assessment
- Auditing brand and reputation
- Risk based audit of projects
- Reviewing joint ventures
- Environmental auditing
- Auditing the marketing function
- Auditing performance management
The Certificate
- Anderson Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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