Please join the IIA Charlotte Chapter for a 8 hour CPE In-Person Workshop on Putting Teamwork Back into Your Team, Nuts and Bolts of Assessing Corporate Culture, Fraud Update: The Year In-Review, Fraud Risk: Assessment Tools and Techniques, and SOX: Optimizing Your Compliance Processes on Friday, May 17 from 8am to 5pm at Knight Theater (430 S. Tryon Str, Charlotte, NC 28202).
Morning Sessions Speaker - Tali Ploetz, GoldSRD
Session 1
Course Title: Putting Teamwork Back into Your Team
NASBA Field of Study: Personal Development
CPE Credits: 2.0
Course Overview: Managers today have to balance multiple competing priorities leaving them short on time and oftentimes focused on the current priorities rather than the long-term health of their organization. It has long been recognized that teamwork rather than individual efforts leads to improved performance and project outcomes. Team-building activities contribute significantly to creating a more cohesive, communicative, and productive team. They create a space for bonding, learning, and growth among team members, which ultimately benefits the entire organization. But how do you put teamwork back into your team? This course will focus on how managers can quickly develop fun team building activities to improve the overall outcomes of your engagements.
Learning Objectives:
Discuss why improving team dynamics is important
Learn the critical elements of effective teambuilding
Discuss how to quickly develop fun and inexpensive team building activities
Session 2
Course Title: Nuts and Bolts of Assessing Corporate Culture
NASBA Field of Study: Auditing
CPE Credits: 2.0
Course Overview: This groundbreaking course is designed for audit professionals aiming to gain comprehensive insights into the complex process of evaluating organizational culture. In today's rapidly evolving business environment, understanding and auditing an organization's culture has become crucial for enhancing governance, risk management, and compliance. This course offers an understanding of methodologies, tools, and practices for effectively auditing and assessing an organization's cultural health.
Learning Objectives:
Discuss corporate governance and culture
Learn and understand the Three Lines Model
Discuss foundational elements for assessing governance and culture
Discuss opportunities to leverage risk management for governance and culture internal audit coverage
Afternoon Sessions Speaker - David Varner, Clearview Group
Session 1
Course Title: Fraud Update: The Year In-Review
NASBA Field of Study: Auditing
CPE Credits: 1.0
Course Overview: Fraud can happen anywhere and is often committed by individuals in positions of trust. In this workshop, we’ll delve into recent national and local fraud cases. We'll deconstruct each case, shedding light on how the ACFE's Fraud Triangle factors into the equation. By the end of the session, participants will emerge with a heightened ability to discern the presence of Opportunity, Pressure, and Rationalization elements in fraud cases.
Learning Objectives:
Discuss recent national and local fraud cases
Learn and utilize the ACFE's Fraud Triangle
Session 2
Course Title: Fraud Assessment Tools & Techniques
NASBA Field of Study: Auditing
CPE Credits: 1.0
Course Overview: Fraud risk behaves differently than financial, operational, or compliance risk. Many organizations are ill equipped to identify fraud risk, often being caught off guard when fraud occurs. During this workshop, participants will learn about different fraud schemes, get better at spotting common warning signs, and develop ways to assess how susceptible their organization is to fraud.
Learning Objectives:
Learn fraud schemes and warning signs of fraud
Discuss differences in fraud risk and how they apply to your organization
Session 3
Course Title: SOX: Optimizing Your Compliance Processes
NASBA Field of Study: Auditing
CPE Credits: 2.0
Course Overview: Navigating SOX compliance can be both daunting and undervalued in certain instances. This workshop is designed to empower participants with key strategies for optimizing their compliance processes, refining risk management practices, and fortifying controls to meet PCAOB expectations. By examining recent challenges highlighted in PCAOB inspection reports, we will offer a thorough exploration of pertinent issues, ensuring attendees gain a solid understanding of what needs to be done.
Learning Objectives:
Learn SOX trends based off of recent PCAOB inspection reports
Discuss emerging SOX issues and key strategies to optimize compliance processes