course | Auditing at the Speed of Risk

The Speed of Risk
 

• A Decade of Global Risk Volatility
• Top 5 Global Risks in Terms of Likelihood
• Where Executives See Risks
• Top Emerging Risks in the 21st Century
• The rising expectations of internal audit's stakeholders
• The imperative to audit at the speed of risk
• Transforming inefficient internal audit processes to the speed of risk

The Speed of Disruption
 

• Disruptive Threats to Internal Audit
• Disruptive impacts of the COVID pandemic on the profession and how the pandemic has accelerated the velocity of risk and disruption
• How the Internal audit should respond to the speed of disruption
• Internal audit's role in auditing culture, artificial intelligence, and new technologies
• How internal audit must leverage innovation in the face of disruption
• Best practices for internal audit could be adopted to effectively address organizational innovation and disruption

Response Strategies for Internal Audit
 

• Identifying Emerging Risks
• Leveraging Technology
• The Need for Speed – When Auditing
• Continuous Risk Assessment
• Techniques to help you consistently keep your risk assessment current:
• Formal methods.
• Shoe-leather assessments
• Bird’s-eye view.
• Internal Audit Engagements
• Audit reports on the speed of risk
   

Future Speed: Becoming a Trailblazer.
 

• The idea that internal auditors can audit anything, but not everything
• The skills future trailblazers will need in the internal audit