CPE: 1.5 hours

Field of Study: Communication

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

The volume of critical risks and the pace of business change today are rendering extinct audit's traditional process for identifying and responding to new risk information. Internal Audit today must use its team and technology to better sense risk information on an ongoing basis. The department level audit plan can no longer be biased in favor of the status quo and internal audit staff must learn to adjust the audit engagement scope to be focused on the most current, critical risks. This session will share key teachings from our Chief Audit Executive meeting series on Real-Time Assurance – that is, how audit departments today are conducting a real-time risk assessment, to inform a real-time audit plan, which will enable auditors to create a real-time audit engagement scope.

It is our hope that after this session participants will have a better understanding of how other internal audit departments are:

1. Collecting real-time risk information
2. Enabling more real-time updates to the audit plan
3. Empowering auditors to make real-time changes to the audit engagement scope

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

Wondering what you will need to do or do differently if your team adopts Lean and Agile auditing? How will using these methodologies affect the skills you need to use to complete your audits?

During this session, Ann M. Butera, CRP and President of The Whole Person Project, Inc., will explain the critical competencies you need for Lean and Agile auditing --- and how you can adapt and develop competencies in these areas. She will provide examples of ways you can adapt to the pace and nature of agile auditing and increase your conceptual flexibility, adaptability, and transversal skills. She will describe ways to position yourself to thrive in a lean and agile environment --- or one in which you are under pressure to "do more with less".

Upon completion of this session, you will be able to:

1. Increase your readiness for Lean and Agile auditing
2. Focus on the competencies you need to audit with agility
3. Walk away with practical approaches you can use to adapt your performance in a Lean and Agile environment

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

Artificial intelligence or “AI” is often referred to though the capabilities of AI are generally not well understood as well as the value that may be obtained. There isn’t yet even a single set of AI terminology that can be agreed upon to use. Tanmay will answer the questions of what AI is, what it's capable of, what it’s not capable of, and how might AI be used by internal auditors in their professional and personal lives.

During the presentation, Tanmay will display transforming examples of this power.

CPE: 1.5 hour

Field of Study: Information Technology

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

This session is designed to reinforce the need for discipline and commitment from internal auditors to pursue continuous monitoring to drive audit strategy and influence enterprise actions. Session topics will take participants through ideas about why continuous monitoring is important, how to commit to it, how to perform it, common pitfalls, and finish with ideas around how to optimize relationships to influence actions. Examples of communications, agendas, templates, and methodologies are shared to connect ideas to practice. Participants should leave the session motivated to take the risk and commit to continuous monitoring in a way they haven’t in the past.

The learning objectives for this session are:

1. Introduce and define continuous monitoring for any internal auditors that are unfamiliar
2. Reinforce the importance of continuous monitoring and how it can enhance strategy, as well as influence enterprise actions away from audits
3. Motivate internal auditors to apply discipline and commitment when pursuing continuous monitoring

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

Can audit really help lead finance transformation from the front? Can audit really jumpstart a control renaissance within an organization? Through real life examples, this session will highlight how an audit team did just that, helping our organization work through multiple years of pervasive materials weaknesses!

In addition to sharing real life examples of how audit helped establish and mature a control environment, this session will also introduce practical examples of audit innovation that has helped accelerate the control maturation journey while discussing practical, cost effective audit innovation that drives both audit and control efficiency.

Attendees will leave this session with renewed energy to help lead their organizations from the front; armed with creative cost-effective audit innovation solutions they can use within their organizations to drive value.

The learning objectives for this session are:

1. Understand how to jumpstart finance transformation efforts
2. Understand practical techniques to advance finance transformation efforts
3. Develop a renewed sense to purpose to enable transformational actions in your organizations

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None