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Registration Closes May 13th
Phoenix Zoo
Neely Center
455 N Galvin Parkway
Phoenix AZ
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
7 CPE Hours
This year's annual conference will be held at the Phoenix Zoo! Join us for a fun day of CPE and catch a few animals on your way home.
Topics include:
AI Governance
Audit Optimization
Agile Auditing
Audit Awareness
New Global Internal Audit Standards
Strategic Planning
Using hotline data to inform risk assessments and audit planning
Please join us for a full-day event with great speakers, topics, and networking opportunities!
A Deep Dive into the Global Internal Audit Standards
In January 2024, The IIA released the much-anticipated update of the professional standards for internal auditing. In this presentation, you will learn more about these changes, the impact on the profession and the important role the internal auditor plays in ensuring their adoption and implementation. You will immerse yourself in the structure and content of the five Domains and will emerge with a fuller understanding of what the standards mean to you and how to apply them in an organizational setting.
Find Your Internal Audit "Why" - Creating an Internal Audit Strategic Plan the Right Way
An effective internal audit function is typically guided by a well-informed strategic plan, but these plans do not happen without intentional leadership and planning efforts. While traditional strategic planning approaches can certainly guide internal audit functions, without significant internal audit team involvement and input, the resulting plans can often be formed on faulty assumptions and not gain critical internal audit team buy-in. This presentation presents a case-study of an internal audit function's strategic planning efforts using Simon Sinek's "Find your Why" approach and will provide attendees with practical steps to ensure the next strategic planning cycle is effective.
AI Governance and Focus Areas for Audit
This session will cover relevant topics for auditors in AI Governance including:
The various AI standards and regulations
Presenting an AI Governance Framework
Specific interest areas to auditor
Auditing with Agility & Audit Optimization
Corporate Audit Services at Salt River Project is pleased to welcome Clarissa Lucas who is the author of “Beyond Agile Auditing: Three Core Components to Revolutionize Your Internal Audit Practice.” She will help lead a panel discussion with SRP’s internal audit team on the topic of Audit Optimization and then take questions from the audience. Clarissa will be available afterwards for a book signing.
5 Critical elements for quality questions
No matter your field, asking questions is one of the most important professional skills to have. Unfortunately, most of us fail to do it effectively. Bad questions lead to bad answers, which leads to bad decision making.
But what if I told you there was a shortcut to improving the quality of your questions?
Ahh. Now I have your attention.
In this session, we’ll discuss the importance of questions, the power in questions and 5 things that will immediately improve the quality of your questions.
Learning Objectives ● Discover why questions are important
● Recognize the power of quality questions
● Explore 5 elements to improve the quality of your questions
Activate your Auditing Awesomeness
Internal auditors are awesome people. That’s something we don’t hear in most business environments. Often we are called necessary evils, the group that bayonets the wounded…I could go on, but you get the point. Several years ago, after a tough audit engagement, a client called my team awesome. Then another. And another. Pretty soon, we started to believe we were actually awesome. However, we did not know what we were doing to create this perception. That is, until I asked.
In this session, we'll discuss client perspectives on what can make auditors awesome. And surprisingly, it has less to do with the act of actually auditing.
Learning Objectives ● Describe 3 critical components to being awesome
● Discover how to find your awesome attributes and apply them to auditing
● Build the courage to activate your awesomeness
Not Your Average Audit Planning: Leveraging Whistleblower Hotline Data for Audits and Risk Assessments
Your ethics hotline reports – regardless of whether there is a formal or informal whistleblowing process - can provide a wealth of information not found in financial data. These reports can also serve as a bellwether for potential litigation and claims not found in disclosures. Learn to mine this data for better audit planning while being mindful of privilege and confidentiality. In addition, learn how to audit the confidential reporting process itself to ensure your organization’s “speakup” mechanisms are functioning as intended.
Thank you for your interest in the Phoenix IIA Annual Conference 2024. Registration is currently closed. If you would like to request a last minute registration, pleaes email us and we will review if we can approve the registration request. Please include your name, email, and whether you would like to attend the event in person or virtually.