Auditing Skills: Business Processes Audit

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Course Overview

This course sets out to provide a processes-oriented approach to auditing within a business, in contrast tomore traditional auditapproaches. Risk is usually less understood, less well controlled and less well audited where a business activity cuts across a number of sections of the business.

Audience

Those with business process review responsibilities -especially internal auditors, technical inspectors, quality assurance and quality management personnel and consultants, other management consultants and external auditors as well as managers and staff embarked upon programmes of control risk self assessment. It is suitable for both public and private sector participants.

Skills Gained

• To clarify the nature of risks and of typical control weaknesses with respect to business activities where responsibility is shared between a number of groups within and perhaps also outside the business
• To give participants a good understanding of how toaudit business processes
• To equip participants with the techniques to evaluate a wide range of business activities
• To prepare participants to be effective in improving the quality of performance -both the better achievement of objectives as well as the more reliable avoidance of unwanted exposures and outcomes

Course Outline

• Determining the fundamental business processes of an organisation
• Approaches to reviewing business processes
• Evaluating operational performance
• Developing business processes review programmes
• Internal control as a process for achieving objectives
• Reviewing the business as a number of processes and cycles rather than as functional areas
• Re-engineering activities to align with fundamental business processes
• Case studies on reviewing business activities

Auditing Skills: Business Processes Audit / CM9655