Thursday, August 5, 2021 10:00 am - Thursday, August 5, 2021 2:00 pm
[GMT-06:00] Central Time (US & Canada)
Event Details
, 4 CPE Hour(s)
Field of Study: Auditing
Knowledge Level: Basic
Course Prerequisites: N/A
Please join us on Thursday, August 5th for a 4 CPE hour session split between Big City Governance with Douglas Jones, KC City Auditor and the State of the Internal Audit Profession with Grant Thornton!
This session includes 1 Ethics CPE Hour (and 3 Audit CPE Hours)
Session Overview:
Session 1:
Topic Brief: Big City Governance – Accountability, Transparency, and Integrity
Presenter: Douglas Jones, CGAP, CIA, CRMA
City Auditor - City of Kansas City, Missouri
Ever wonder who audits city government department, programs, and activities? In Kansas City, Missouri, this is the job of the City Auditor’s Office. Attend this session to learn more about local government auditing and how Kansas City, Missouri, government is audited. This presentation will provide information about the role of the City Auditor’s Office in Kanas City government, the office’s performance, and the Government Auditing Standards that are the foundation for conducting this work.
The Government Auditing Standards note accountability for the use of public resources and government authority is a key concept and also include fundamental ethical principles for auditors in the government environment. This presentation will discuss these ethical principles as well as audits and other work the City Auditor’s Office has conducted that focused on or touched on ethical issues.
Douglas Jones, CGAP, CIA, CRMA was appointed city auditor by the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council in June 2013. He has 33 years of private and government auditing experience; almost 28 of those years auditing Kansas City government.
He is the chair of the Association of Local Government Auditors Advocacy Committee and has also served on the Professional Issues Committee. Since 2016, he has been a member of the United States Comptroller General’s Domestic Working Group. Jones is the current past-chair of the Mid-America Intergovernmental Audit Forum Executive Committee as well as the MAMIAF’s local government representative to the National Intergovernmental Audit Forum. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors for the Association of Airport Internal Auditors.
Session 2:
Topic Brief:State of Internal Audit Profession
Presenters: Brett Lewis, OMP, GT Kansas City
Gregory Haberer, Senior Manager
Mohammad Siddiqui, Experienced Manager
Recently, Grant Thornton and the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) hosted an innovation session during their General Audit Management (GAM) conference where attendees discussed the growing complexities they face today. At the top of the list was the excessive time required on control testing and other manual compliance activities
For the August Session with the IIA Kansas City Chapter, our key speaker is Gregory Haberer, Product Architect for Grant Thornton’s controls-test automation app cta.x(U.S. Patent No. 11,030,565). Grant Thornton will provide insights into the growing shift to control testing automation and how it can bring greater efficiency and assurance to monitoring operational effectiveness of your internal controls. The discussion will also cover current barriers to automation as developing the related technical skills can be a significant undertaking – and might not be practical for many organizations.
Brett is Grant Thornton’s managing partner of the Kansas City office and the Great Plains market, which is composed of the firm’s Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis and Wichita offices, as well as the Iowa market
Greg Haberer has delivered impactful solutions enabling automated operational control activities, automated control testing, and automated orchestration of risk assessment data gathering that allow risk and compliance executives to achieve better assurance and reduced risk by making more of the investments they are making.
Mohammad Siddiqui is a seasoned practitioner focused on serving large public clients within the firm’s Controls Advisory practice. Mohammad has lead several different types of engagements such as planning and execution of operational internal audits, and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance – including risk assessments, process and quality improvements to increase external auditor reliance on internal audit through optimization of internal controls and control automation.
Time & Date: Thursday, August 5th, 2021 from 10:00PM - 2:00PM
Thank you for your interest in Big City Governance & State of the Profession. Registration is currently closed or sold out. Please use the following information to contact us if you have any questions: