Special seminars on Internal Audit on December 19-21th, 2012
The Institute of Internal Auditors of Ukraine is organizing a cycle of special seminars on internal audit entitled "Keys to being an Effective Audit Senior," "Effective Audit Planning and Engagement Risk Assessment," and "Optimized Critical Thinking." The seminars will be held at the conference hall of the Alfavito Hotel (35D Predslavynska Street, Kyiv). Seminars brief overview: 1. Keys to being an Effective Audit Senior (19/12/2012) This training seminar gives Audit Seniors insight into how to review a file, manage a project and drafting audit reports. Additionally, this course will cover the interpersonal skills to supervise the audit team and interactions with auditees, even audit management. Attendees will learn how to identify audit risk and appropriate audit planning tools and techniques, how to evaluate existing audit documentation, will discover the best techniques for team management, will discuss interpersonal and team-building skills, will understand the audit report creation process. 2. Effective audit planning and engagement risk assessment (20/12/2012) Planning is the foundation for every efficient and effective audit. If audit teams take the time to build an effective audit risk assessment and plan the audit accordingly, the opportunity for a smooth and under budget increases exponentially. This one course will take attendees through the basics of audit level risk assessments and appropriate steps throughout the planning phase of an audit. Attendees will learn how to identify audit risk and appropriate audit planning tools and techniques, how to apply critical thinking skills to the planning and risk assessment phase to perform an effective audit, will discover the best techniques for team management. 3. Optimized critical thinking (21/12/2012) Critical Thinking is defined as a type of reasonable, reflective thinking that is aimed at deciding what to believe or what to do. It is a way of deciding whether a claim is always true, sometimes true, partly true, or false. Critical thinking is an important component of most professions, especially in specialized fields such as the medical field, air travel and any specific science, including internal audit. As auditors, the ability to optimize our critical thinking skills will assist in distinguishing auditors as value-added employees to an organization. This one-day course will assist attendees in understanding the concepts of critical thinking and applying it to all aspects of the audit process. Detail seminars program is available at the Institute of Internal Auditors Ukraine's official Web site www.iia.org.ua/. At the end of each seminar's day participants will receive Certificates of Institute of Internal Auditors Ukraine and Sunera LLC, confirming participation in the seminar and obtaining 8 CPEs credits (CPE - Continuing Professional Education). That allows for thematic international certifications holders (such as CPA, CIA, CFE, CISA, CISM, etc.) to confirm professional development and the rights to hold respective international certificate. Invited speaker is Danny M. Goldberg, CPA, CIA, CISA, CCSA, who leads the Professional Development Practice at Sunera LLC (http://www.sunera.com/). Danny has over 15 years of audit experience and various experience in SOX Compliance implementation project in Texas’ companies. In addition, he is accredited as the professional commentator on the publication Bloomberg BNA (BNA Tax and Accounting Portfolio, Internal Auditing: Fundamental Principles and best Practices), which is authored by renowned audit scholars Curtis C. Verschoor and Mort A. Dittenhofer – co-author of Sawyer’s Internal Auditing. Danny is top rated by audit professional society in USA as a result of numerous presentations at events and conferences organized by Institute of Internal Auditors and other professional associations. Danny is also leading a project team that is writing a guidance manual on Effective Communications Skills, supported by the IIA Research Foundation. The cost of participation in one day of seminars' cycle is UAH 3,000. It includes providing with learning materials on the topic of the seminar and catering (coffee breaks, lunch). Presentation will be conducted in English, with translation into Russian. If you are interested in participating, you can register in the following ways: 1. Send filled in registration via e-mail: office@iia.org.ua. The form is available at http://iia.org.ua 2. Call: (+380) 50 063 8564 We will be happy to welcome you among the participants of the seminars on internal audit!