Techniques for Understanding and Auditing Unfamiliar Areas
Course Description
Have you ever been tasked to audit an area that is completely unfamiliar to you? Not sure where to start and what to ask when you’ve never audited the area, process, or product before? Wondering how to set the audit scope for an unfamiliar process? If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, plan on attending this four-hour session on Tuesday, September 17, 2024.
During this interactive session, Ann M. Butera will share time-tested, quick, and effective ways to gain an understanding of unfamiliar processes and entities. She will explain several techniques so you can think critically about unfamiliar areas, and describe approaches you can use to increase your business acumen and identify topics to include in the audit scope. And, you will have the opportunity to test the techniques during class.
Learning Objectives
Review techniques for categorizing processes, functions, and entities
Use these techniques to save time when identifying focal inherent risks
Identify the typical, recurring inherent risk issues and the typical controls to address them
Engage in a series of hands-on interactive exercises to practice applying these techniques
Walk away with techniques and tools you can use immediately
This session is for you, so, come with questions – there will be Q&A time!
Speaker: Ann M Butera, CRP – President, The Whole Person Project, Inc.
Ann M. Butera, CRP is the President of The Whole Person Project, Inc., an organizational development consulting firm that enables professionals to improve their organizational change and risk management practices and achieve measurable results. Known for providing practical advice, she is a corporate trainer, instructional designer, and frequent speaker at ACUIA, ACUA, IIA Chapters, the IIA International Conferences, IIA GRC, and IIA All Stars.
She is an audit committee member, an IIA member, and an Impact 100 member. Ann wrote the books, Mastering the Five Tiers of Audit Competency: The Essence of Effective Auditing and Say What!? Communicate with Tact and Impact. In these books, she shares time-tested approaches and leading practices for every stage of the audit. New and seasoned auditors and risk professionals will benefit from her insight culled from over 30 years’ experience training thousands of their peers.
She received her Masters of Business Administration in Organizational Development from Adelphi University, and is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Long Island University/C.W. Post College. When she’s not tackling risk management issues, she is on a tennis court, on the beach, in her garden, or at the theater.