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Fundamental Practices of an Internal Audit Function: Identify Key Opportunities for Improving Audit Performance


Duration: 1 Hour

Currently, organizations are exposed to very frequent governance, compliance and ethical risks. Coupled with the current economic, regulatory and social climate, these risks have made corporate governance, compliance management and integrity a top business priority. An effective Internal Audit (IA) function is a valuable resource for management, the board and audit committee to evaluate the performance of GRC practices, and in turn improve the governance practices of any organization to a great extent.

MetricStream's Internal Audit Management software solution is a comprehensive application designed to help companies manage a wide range of audit-related programs, data and processes. It provides end-to-end functionality for managing the complete audit lifecycle and helps organizations to implement best internal audit practices for efficient audit execution and ensure integration of the audit process with the risk and compliance management system.

Areas Covered in the webinar:

  • What the Internal Audit function should be doing
  • Criticality of proper planning
  • What the key activities are
  • Who is responsible for what activity
  • A balanced audit plan is the key
  • Emerging Issues to watch out for
  • Audit scope and Objective
  • General audit steps and approach
  • Audit risk assessment
  • What auditors like to see
  • Best practices in Audit testing and report

Speaker

Dan Swanson
Dan Swanson CMA, CIA, CISA, CISSP, CAP President and CEO, Dan Swanson & Associates is a 24-year internal audit veteran, who most recently was director of professional practices at the Institute of Internal Auditors.

Prior to the IIA, Swanson was an independent management consultant for over 10 years Swanson has completed more than 50 IT preparedness audits. Swanson recently led the writing of the OCEG internal audit guide for use in audits of compliance & ethics programs (www.oceg.org) and participated in the COSO small business task force efforts to provide guidance for smaller public companies regarding internal control over financial reporting (www.coso.org) .

The author of more than 100 articles on internal auditing and other management topics, Swanson is currently a freelance writer, an independent management consultant, and regular columnist for Compliance Week.

  

Santu Chakraborty
Manager, GRC SOlutions

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