SCHEDULE
| Dates | Venue | Category |
| 6-10 August 2023 | Dubai – United Arab Emirates | Audit-Risk Management |
INTRODUCTION
In the ever-changing business environment, encountering risk is inevitable. The ability to manage these increasingly significant risks now represents the difference between a thriving organisation and one that is struggling to deal with the challenges facing it.
To deal with these challenges requires extensive knowledge of risk management, effective internal control and proactive fraud prevention techniques. This is exactly what you will find in this course.
This Risk Management training seminar will enable you to develop and deliver a systematic plan to strengthen your risk management, fraud prevention and internal control environment.
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
Upon the completion of this training, participants will be able to understand:
- Ensure your organization has an effective balance between risk and internal control
- Explain to management the benefits of an enterprise –wide approach to risk and internal control
- Apply the different techniques for identifying and managing risks
- Ensure that preventative, detective and corrective controls are in place
- Link risk management and internal control into the business planning process
- Implement an effective fraud prevention process
- Promote a culture of integrity and ethics across the organisation
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Risk Managers
- Business Managers in line functions
- Audit Managers and other auditors
- Quality Assurance Professionals
- Managers needing a broader understanding of risk and internal control
COURSE MODULES
Session 1: The Power of Effective Risk Management
- The Importance of Managing Risks Efficiently and Effectively
- The Need to Embed the Risk Management Process
- The Key Link between Risk and Objectives
- Risk Measurement Techniques
- Selling the Benefits
- Ensuring Effective Balance between Risk and Control
- ISO 31000 Risk Standard
- Risk Appetite – The least well understood aspect of risk?
Session 2: Effectively Managing the Risk Process
- Risk Mitigation Processes
- The Risk Register – and How to simplify them and optimise their value
- Identification of Risk Exposures – The 4 T’s
- Developing Action Plans and Improvement Opportunities
- Dealing with Over-managed Risks
- Linking the Output into the Business Planning Process
- Reputation Risk Management
- Engaging Stakeholders in the Process
Session 3: The Internal Control Environment
- The Need to See Internal Control as a Positive Process
- The Pressure on Internal Controls due to Leaner Business Structures
- The COSO Internal Control Integrated Framework
- The 3 Types of Control – Preventative, Detective and Corrective
- How to Get Senior Management to Take Internal Control Seriously
- Compliance with Procedures and Policies
- The Constantly Changing Regulatory Requirements
Session 4: The Key Pressures on the Internal Control Processes
- The Changing World Economy and the Impact on Controls
- The Ongoing Evaluation of the Control Environment
- Information Security
- Controls Over Technology
- Systems Development & the Risk to Internal Controls
- Internal and External Communications – and the Control Impact
- The Need for Internal Control Procedures Be Kept up-to-Date
Session 5: Proactive Fraud Prevention
- Why internal controls may not protect you against fraud?
- How to Implement a Best Practice Fraud Prevention Process
- Evaluating the Fraud Risks
- Developing a Fraud Consciousness Loop
- The Anti-fraud Policy
- Recognising the Patterns of Fraudulent Behaviour
- Promoting Integrity and Ethics Across the Organisation