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10 – 14 August 2008
Al Murooj Rotana Hotel,
Dubai, UAE
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12 – 14 August 2008
Attend This Advanced Course To:
• Improve audit performance, success and reputation by adopting the most up to date audit techniques
• Market the internal audit service effectively
• Adopt proven methods to automate the audit process
• Enhance your coverage by auditing more challenging and interesting areas of the business
• Add measurable value to your organisation by delivering world class audit services
• Enable your organisation to combat the risk of fraud
• Auditors
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Meet Your Expert Course Director
Dear Audit Professional, Phil Griffiths FCA, AIIA is Founder and Managing
Director of Business Risk Management Ltd.
Internal audit is fast becoming one of the most important business
functions to Middle East companies. However, in order to enable A Chartered Accountant, he has over 25 years’
this department to be recognised as truly value-adding, its leaders experience in internal audit, risk management and
must gain fresh, new perspectives on how they execute their fraud prevention as practitioner, professional
quintessential auditing functions. adviser, consultant and trainer. He has held top
management positions with a number of
international groups, in roles embracing finance, internal audit, risk
Innovative Audit Reporting brings new auditing angles to the
management, IT and general management.
table by exploring alternative methods to improve your audit reports,
enhance their impact and make them more acceptable, reviewable His areas of expertise include:
and implementable. • Assisting senior management to identify, manage and then exploit
the risks within their business via facilitated business risk
As an essential, complementary course, Advanced Audit Skills management programmes
enables you to master your auditing ability and be recognised • Helping internal audit functions to implement world class
company-wide as a truly value-adding employee. standards
• Benchmarking internal audit and risk management – the BRM Ltd.
Through five interactive days, these two comprehensive, database has information from over 2000 organisations across
the world
complementary courses are led by the renowned Phil Griffiths,
• Fraud prevention, detection and investigation programmes
lauded for previous courses as “innovative yet practical” and tailored specifically to clients requirements
“amazing when discussing modern challenges”. Phil Griffiths, • Training both private and public sector organisations in all the
Managing Director of Business Risk Management Ltd., has built above disciplines
a reputation in the Gulf region as an incredibly beneficial course
leader who will enable you to implement international expertise in Phil is recognised as an accomplished and charismatic facilitator,
this unique Middle East environment. trainer and lecturer having advised many renowned organisations,
coordinated top-level events and addressed national and
Even more, copies of extensive research material and electronic international conferences on a wide range of critical business topics.
models including a world renowned audit planning model will be
He has published research into many aspects of the audit and risk
made available to you.
management challenges faced by organisations, the latest being his
new book ‘Risk Based Auditing’.
Take the initiative now to jump-start your career and gain
recognition as a value-adding audit professional by signing up He has worked extensively with all sectors in the Gulf during the past
today! 13 years to enable such organisations to exploit their potential by
managing their strategic risks and/or enhancing the effectiveness of
Phil and I look forward to meeting you in August. their internal audit services.
Yours sincerely,
Is this the right course for you?
Keith Parker
Conference Manager
P.S. You are asked to bring along two or three recent audit
reports. These are solely for your own reference.
Both courses will be highly practical and interactive with exercises and case studies to enhance your understanding of the key issues including
how to:
• Deal with the common problems of audit reports which often: • Assess your reputation
- Have too many pages and unnecessarily long explanations • Create risk based audit plans
- Take too long to issue and finalise • Automate the audit process
- Have impractical recommendations • Enhance the level of assurance you can give without the need to
- Do not get commitment by management increase the time on each audit
• Critically assess your own reports • Understand the corporate governance challenges
• Create a best practice report • Combat the risk of fraud
• Set your own key performance indicators • Audit the reputation of your organisation
Course Timings
Registration will commence at 08:00 on day one of each course. The courses will begin at 08:30 each day. There will be two breaks for
refreshments at around 10:30 and 12:30. Lunch will follow at close of day at 14:30.
Course Outline
Internal audit reports and the reporting process should be constructive, creative and provoke change. In this age of innovation and challenge,
conventional audit reports and reporting procedures may fail to arouse interest, stimulate action, or do justice to the audit performed.
Answer these 20 questions about internal audit reports issued during the last 12 months as truthfully and objectively as you can.
1. Have more than 95% of audit recommendations during the last year been fully and successfully implemented?
2. Did your reports correlate with your organisation’s strategic and business objectives? Do your audit recommendations specifically assist in
their achievement?
3. Were all of your reports less than six pages?
4. If you were the recipient would they have spurred you into immediate action?
5. Did all the reports take less than two weeks to finalise?
6. Were all of your findings or recommendations different from the last time an audit of the same area was carried out?
7. Was the cost of completing the audit shown on the face of the report?
8. Did the reports include photographs and graphics?
9. Were they issued electronically?
10. Were there any surprises?
11. Did the reports focus on the future rather than the past?
12. Did the management comments indicate real commitment rather than simply a way for the “The event was just great!”
client to close the audit process and get on to something else? Faleh Al Anjani, Auditor
13. Was the audit opinion a true reflection of the overall conclusions? Did the key recipient Sabic, KSA
accept this audit opinion as valid?
14. Did the findings, conclusions and recommendations really represent the key issues?
15. Did you only report on the major issues found during the audit with the minor issues being
“The Middle East is catching up in
dealt with separately? with the skills, theories and concepts
16. Were all the recommendations 100% practicable? discussed.”
17. Were all the audits conducted fully recognised by the organisation as helpful and relating Sohel Merchant, Assistant Manager,
to key business risks or opportunities? Management Assurance
18. Were the reports a true reflection of the expertise, knowledge and professionalism that
WJ Towell & Co (LLC), Oman
went into the audits?
19. Have you changed the report format significantly within the past two years?
20. Do you believe that your reports are as good as they could be? “It was a very valuable event, and I
really learnt a great amount from it.”
If you cannot answer ‘Yes’ to more than 15 of the questions it is unlikely that your audit reports Gamil Zaki, Internal Audit Officer
will meet the needs of your organisation. If you scored 10 or less you are probably being more
EFG Hemes Holding Co, Egypt
objective than those who scored themselves 15 or more (And you will represent very much the
normal organisation as far as audit reports go!)
Day One – Tuesday, 12 August 2008 Exercise 9: Assessing The Reputation Of • Audit programme development
Your Function • Assignment planning and control
Planning And Automation • Fieldwork techniques
Audit Planning
The Internal Audit Role • Determining the level of assurance required Exercise 11: Fieldwork Techniques
• Audit’s primary roles, objectives and • Identifying the audit universe
concerns • Strategic audit planning • How to cover specialist areas
• What is best practice? – sharing results of • Best practice audit risk planning model (an
recent benchmarking surveys electronic version will be provided) Audit Automation
• The role of the function – policeman, risk • Computer assisted audit techniques
assessor or consultant? Exercise 10: Strategic Audit Planning Using • Covering the whole population of data
• The reputation of the function and how to The Model rather than just a sample
assess it • Benfords Law and its importance
• Key performance indicators • Sources of work • Options available
• Managing audit requests
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