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Your Growth, Our Mission

Managing the Internal Audit Department
Course Description
New business risks, governance, globalization, and the continuing demands of senior management for value-added services combine to make the job of an IA manager more and more demanding. This comprehensive course is a road map to developing or maintaining an audit department that is ready to meet the challenges of this evolving business environment.

You will build on the key responsibilities of the audit manager and explore best practices in internal auditing today. Focusing on establishing a mission statement and strategic plan for IA, you will cover how to set attainable objectives and goals; reacting to changing risk/control relationships; marketing IAs services; structuring the audit department; and the annual audit planning process.

You will build on the key responsibilities of the audit manager and explore best practices in internal auditing today. Focusing on establishing a mission statement and strategic plan for IA, you will cover how to set attainable objectives and goals; reacting to changing risk/control relationships; marketing IAs services; structuring the audit department; and the annual audit planning process.

Internal Auditors, Financial & Operational Auditors, Finance Personnel, External Auditors, Audit Managers and Supervisors, IT Auditors, Senior and In-Charge Auditors, Team Leaders and Directors

The Critical Role of the Audit Director / Manager

  • Traditional roles, new responsibilities: addressing ERM and globalization
  •  Strategically acceptable organizational reporting
  •  Strategies that will help your department maximize its value

Developing an Effective Mission/Vision Statement

  • Maintaining professional standards
  • Building flexibility into the plan to allow Audits role to evolve

Incorporating consulting

  • Business unit initiatives
  •  Pre-implementation teams
  •  Incorporating governance and ethics roles
  • Knowing your business ERM process

Developing Strategic and Risk-Based Annual Business Plans

  •  Ensuring your plan is flexible enough to respond to new ERM challenges
  • Creating plans that address senior managements and the audit committees goals
  •  Ensuring your ERM strategy addresses fraud, IT and SOX risks
  •  Blending long-term strategic plans with short-term annual plans
  •  Applying the roll-forward concept to your annual plan

Corporate Governance

  • The impact of Sarbanes-Oxley and PCAOB on managing the IA department
  • Role of IA in fraud prevention
  • Proactive and strategic roles for IA
  • Maintaining the tone at the top
  •  Key areas of exposure
  • Global compliance

Building Relationships: Marketing and Selling Internal Audit

  •  Making sure IA isn’t the organizations best-kept secret
  • More than 100 proven strategies for selling IA
  • Making marketing a departmental effort

Audit Committee Relationships

  • Best practices
  •  Education new members
  • 10 pitfalls to avoid

Attracting and Keeping the Right People with the Right Stuff

  • Innovative ways to find new talent, strategies for managing and balancing turnover
  • Retaining and motivating talented staff

Co-Sourcing

  •  Getting the most out of resources within the rest of the organization
  • Big four vs. non-big four, attest vs. non-attest firm
  •  One vs. multiple firms, fee vs. recovery agreements
  •  Domestic vs. international coverage
  • Managing costs

Minimizing Departmental Administration

  • Eliminating inefficient and outdate procedures
  • Taking a zero-based approach

Improving the Productivity of the Audit Process

  • Planning smarter
  • Testing less
  • Thinking report from day one
  • Making individual audits risk-based

Incorporating Best Practices throughout the Department

IAs Role in High-Profile Situations and What Went Wrong

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.

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Course Rounds

5 Days
Code Date Venue Fees Action
AUD117-02
2026-05-17
Cairo
USD 5450
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AUD117-03
2026-08-16
Dubai
USD 5450
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AUD117-04
2026-11-15
Dubai
USD 5450
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