A Highly Interactive Training Course On

Adding Value in Internal Audit

Transforming Internal Audit
into an Insightful, Catalyst for Change

Adding Value in Internal Audit
Course Schedule

CLASSROOM

14-18 Apr 2025
Dubai
$5,950
11-15 Aug 2025
Dubai
$5,950
15-19 Dec 2025
London
$5,950
Certificate
  • Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

Training Overview

Training Overview

In today's environment, a robust and professional Internal Audit function is more essential than ever. The role now demands a greater level of assurance and must move beyond its traditional focus.

This Coventry Academy training course aims to transform your Internal Audit function into a modern, proactive, and future-oriented business partner. The course will emphasize a philosophy of adding value to foster positive change and enhance organizational operations.

Key features of the course include:

  • Strategies for focusing the audit process on value-added services.
  • Approaches to auditing third-party activities, including outsourced services and joint ventures.
  • Techniques for building a world-class audit team.
  • Principles of continuous auditing for ongoing improvement.
  • Guidelines for auditing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives.

By participating in this course, you will equip your Internal Audit function to drive meaningful change and improve overall business performance.

What are the goals?

By the end of this Coventry Academy training course, participants will be able to:

  • Benchmark your IA function against worldwide best practice
  • Make the transition from a good function to a great one
  • Deliver measurable added value
  • Deal with the challenges of consultancy
  • Audit Corporate Governance with confidence
  • Deliver stakeholder assurance more effectively
  • Engage more positively with senior management

Who is this Training Course for?

This training course is targeted at senior assurance professionals – and is centred on the key challenges faced by a modern internal audit function – and the desire to add significantly greater value to the business

The event represents a superb opportunity to meet your peers from both your sector and others and develop new approaches to the difficult challenges facing Internal Audit today 

  • Heads of Audit
  • Audit managers or those about to be appointed to this level
  • Audit supervisors
  • Managers of other assurance functions such as Compliance or Quality Assurance
  • Senior Management

How will this Training Course be Presented?

This exciting training course will utilise a variety of proven learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes various exercises and case studies to provide practical application of the tools and techniques. A wide range of key topics will be discussed – and tips and proven techniques will be shared to enable the process to be challenged and the service optimised – so that senior management’s expectations are exceeded.

The Course Content

Day One: Internal Audit Best Practice
  • Ensure IA is seen as an agent for positive change
  • Meeting the challenges of the new IIA standards
  • The significant changes in the Internal Audit role
  • The need to recognise audit risk
  • Building a world class team
  • Marketing the IA activities
 Day Two: The Value for Money (VFM) Approach
  • What is VFM?
  • The Power of VFM auditing
  • The 3 E’s (Efficiency, economy and effectiveness)
  • VFM audit techniques
  • Performance measurement
  • Case Studies
Day Three: Adding Value by Focusing Audit Activities
  • Focusing attention on the activities with potential to add value
  • Auditing Third Party activities
  • Outsourcing reviews
  • Managing the added value audit process
  • Continuous auditing
  • Assurance Mapping
Day Four: Corporate Governance – the Added Value Approach
  • The key aspects of CG
  • Auditing the key aspects of Corporate Governance
  • Developing proactive Audit Committee relationships
  • Auditing Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics
  • How to understand and exceed stakeholders’ expectations
  • Auditing new areas such as Social Media
Day Five: Auditing the More Complex Added Value Topics
  • Information security
  • Systems under development
  • The web site and external communications
  • IT projects
  • Business Continuity Management
  • Brand and reputation management