Internal audit for effective assurance

Understanding governance processes, risk management and internal control

New for 2012

• Finance and other managers.
• Board members.
• Risk managers, internal auditors and compliance officers.
• Company secretaries.

The course is designed to be suitable for all for-profit sectors as well as for those from public bodies and not-for-profit entities.

• An opportunity to get up to speed with the practical essentials of risk management.
• Insight into corporate governance - especially what makes internal governance effective.
• An understanding of the meaning of internal control, what effective internal control achieves and how to ensure that control is effective.

Eur Ing Professor Andrew D Chambers, BA, CEng, FCCA, FCA, FIIA, FBCS, CITP, FRSA

Described by The Times as 'a worldwide authority on corporate governance', Andrew runs Management Audit LLP which specialises in advising on audit and corporate governance. Author of over 15 books on auditing and corporate governance, he sat on the UK FRC's Auditing Practices Board (2006-9) and is currently a member of the Federation des Experts Comptables Europeens' (FEE) Corporate Governance and Company Law Working Party.

• External aspects of governance processes.
• Business ethics, values, culture and behaviour as aspects of internal governance.
• Internal processes for achieving effective governance of the organisation.
• The roles of different parties, including boards, management, risk managers, internal auditors and compliance officers.
• The meaning of risk management.
• Essentials for effective risk management within an organisation.
• Risk management tools.
• Embedding risk management and making it enterprise-wide.
• Risk management at board and board committee level.
• Understanding internal control.
• The hallmarks of effective business processes.

The seminar starts with registration and morning coffee at 9.00 am and finishes at 5.00 pm. Refreshments and a light lunch will be provided.

6 CPD hours (where applicable)