Institute of Internal Auditors Courses for NJCPA Members

There are essential skills that every leader needs to effectively manage people and projects. However, an internal audit leader’s day-to-day encounters are quite different from the encounters of leaders in other professions. The leadership role of an internal auditor requires the ability to identify and navigate the nuances of professional relationships; recognize the strengths and weaknesses within an organization’s systems and culture, as well as within the internal audit staff; and position the internal audit staff as highly operative trusted advisors. The Developing Leadership Skills for Team Leaders course provides an increased awareness of the overall effectiveness of internal audit leaders, and will provide a framework and a series of methods to assist participants in developing skills to create and maintain winning internal audit teams that are efficient, effective, and motivated.

While compliance auditing is typically used to evaluate whether the organization is following external regulations, it can also be used at a corporate level to determine whether a subsidiary company follows the wider corporation's procedures and policies. Internal auditors should exhibit the proficiency and professional due care to ensure adequate testing is performed, reducing the likelihood of failing regulatory and other stakeholders expectations.

Internal audit and internal auditors must be agile — able to add value in a nimble way in response to disruptions and evolving risks faced by the organization. Specific agile software development methodologies and an agile mindset support innovations in the internal audit process to better enhance and protect organizational value. This is agile with a big “A”! Are you ready to help your internal audit activity become Agile?

Learning and understanding the fundamentals of internal auditing is a necessary step for the new internal auditor who wants to grow quickly within the profession. This program provides an overview of the life cycle of an audit engagement, including planning, examining the internal control environment and audit governance, obtaining and presenting audit evidence, and successfully wrapping-up the engagement.

Leading an internal audit project requires knowing and fully understanding the audit process and possessing the ability to guide an engagement team in performing the fundamental responsibilities of internal auditing. This program provides an overview of the life cycle of leading an audit engagement, including planning, examining the internal control environment and audit governance, obtaining and presenting audit evidence, wrapping-up the audit engagement and measuring internal audit productivity.

Learning and understanding the fundamentals of internal auditing is a necessary step for the new internal auditor who wants to grow quickly within the profession. This program provides an overview of the life cycle of an audit engagement, including planning, examining the internal control environment and audit governance, obtaining and presenting audit evidence, and successfully wrapping-up the engagement.

While compliance auditing is typically used to evaluate whether the organization is following external regulations, it can also be used at a corporate level to determine whether a subsidiary company follows the wider corporation's procedures and policies. Internal auditors should exhibit the proficiency and professional due care to ensure adequate testing is performed, reducing the likelihood of failing regulatory and other stakeholders expectations.

This highly interactive course provides internal auditors with timely insights into how to utilize critical-thinking techniques to translate audit findings into actionable audit observations.

This course is designed to provide internal auditors and audit leaders with their own agility to an agile auditing strategy and an executable plan that will move them from their current state to a desired future state with improved agility in every phase of the audit engagement.

This course will provide participants with an examination into the detection, assessment, investigation, and mitigation of fraud. Also addressed will be fraud risk management and the importance of a fraud risk framework in mitigating fraud at an organizational level. Areas of potential high fraud risk will be discussed and recommendations for mitigation of fraud presented.