Innovation for Audit Managers
Overview
Managers must understand, deploy, and sustain innovation as a key characteristic of their units. This course shows how to embed innovation and agility in a department’s methodology and administration, key considerations when implementing change initiatives, and techniques to successfully apply the Three Lines Model to provide integrated assurance. It also covers ways to make Internal Audit a more visible contributor to an organization’s value protection and creation infrastructure.
Why you should take this course
For users with an introductory knowledge of this topic, and are searching for additional information and its application.
Here are the topics we'll cover.
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Change Enablement
- Change Enablement
- Change Models
- Objections to Change
- Tools Overview to Facilitate Change Initiatives
- Requirements for a Successful Change Process
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Strengthening the Evidence We Obtain and Use
- Facts vs. Opinion
- Quality of Evidence
- Poor Quality Evidence
- Persuasion
- Force Field Analysis
- Data Analytics
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Expanding Our Role
- New Areas for Audit Review
- The 8 Es
- Integrated Auditing
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Management and Leadership in Internal Audit
- 10 Key Actions to Remain Relevant
- Behaviors and Attributes
- Leadership Types
- Expectations of Manager-Leaders
- Maintaining Strategic Relationships
- Setting Goals
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People, Processes, and Tools
- Employee Engagement
- Key Skills for Managers
- Troubleshooting Problems
- Modeling
- Upgrading our Methodology – Some Tools
- Upgrading our Methodology – Additional Tools
- Maturity of the Internal Audit Department
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Achieving a Higher Level of Thinking
- Critical Thinking
- Bloom’s Taxonomy
- Deductive Reasoning
- Inductive Reasoning
- Distracting Techniques
- Recognizing and Solving Problems
- Ranking Problems
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The Three Lines Model
Learning Style
Level
Who this course is for
NASBA Certified CPE
Field of Study
Length of course
Advanced Preparation
Here are the learning objectives we'll cover
- Understand how managers can apply innovation in the planning, fieldwork, and reporting phases of internal audits and consulting engagements.
- Apply techniques to improve internal audit methodology and be more responsive to clients’ needs.
- Enhance management planning and evaluate an organizations’ change initiatives and how innovation impacts programs, processes, products, and services.
- Prepare action plans that apply innovation and demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and forward-thinking.