Auditing Skills: Compliance Audit

Course Overview

For various reasons, top management in most organisations have the need to be assured, on a regular basis, that the most important practices and procedures are well adhered to by employees. This has increased over recent times because of the impact of corporate governance and control environments, such as those dictated by quality standards, financial and other regulation, branch inspection or 'internal controller' regimes which need a special approach to the audit task.

This course clearly demonstrates what compliance auditing is all about and promotes the use of effective skills and techniques to achieve its purpose.

Course Outline

• The audit focus
• Features of compliance audit environments
• Basic skills and requirements
• Behavioural reactions
• Planning the work
• Interview style
• Appropriate methods for control evaluation
• Viable testing strategies
• Working paper concepts
• Reporting style and speed