In conjunction with CHAN Healthcare Auditors, the Indy IIA is partnering together for this training in order to provide non-perishable food to the Gleaner's Food Bank. Please join us in this effort and bring 10 non-perishable food items to the event. We will have a participant from CHAN that will deliver the food items to the local food bank.

INSTRUCTOR: Raven Catlin

COURSE OVERVIEW

Internal Auditing is a forward thinking profession; therefore, our audits should reflect our abilities to focus on the forward progress of our organization through reviews of management goals, objectives, and initiatives.  This course will help auditors understand and design operational audits that concentrate efforts on future rather than past events, assess control systems to manage key business risks, and evaluate operational efficiency and effectiveness.  You will also understand the importance of teaming with management to develop solutions to audit concerns that meet business needs and mitigate control weaknesses. Attendees will have the opportunity to practice skills learned throughout the course using a case study.

3 REASONS WHY YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO MISS THIS SEMINAR:

1. You’ll miss the opportunity to learn three operational auditing tools.
2. You’ll miss the opportunity to collaborate with your team members and audit peers.
3. You’ll miss the opportunity to explore trends and best practices in operational auditing

 WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Anyone seeking to understand an operational audit.
• Executives desiring to learn more about operational audit or who are exploring a transition to operational or integrated auditing.
• Auditors in transition from financial and compliance based audits to operational auditing.
• Auditors currently performing operational audits seeking to gain tips and tools to complete efficient and effective operational audits

 ATTENDEES WILL (NASBA Learning Objectives):

• Learn how to define and explain operational auditing and operational auditing benefits
• Learn to use operational auditing tools
• Learn to focus audit efforts on future activities and risks
• Learn how to team with management to add value to the organization

COURSE OUTLINE WILL INCLUDE SOME OF THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:

• Operational auditing basics and tools
• Defining operational auditing
• Understanding important aspects of operational audits: objectives and relationships
• Exploring useful tools, methods, and tips to help you have an effective and efficient audit (e.g. ACL, IDEA, Value for Money analysis, flowchart analysis, time and cost analysis)
• Understanding operations and working with business area/operations management
• Utilizing Management in your quest for an efficient and effective operational audit
• Relationship management and negotiation skills
• Introduction to control and ERM frameworks
• Getting creative
• Impacts of the annual risk assessment
• Operational Audit Planning
• Creating an Outstanding Operational Audit program
• Audit sampling
• Identifying and auditing performance measures
• Audit tests for evaluating effectiveness, efficiency, and economy of operations
• Following up – What to do when operations change? (because they will!)