Beste Guest,

Have you made plans to attend The IIA's International Conference in Amsterdam, 10-12 July? Don't miss this opportunity to network with fellow internal auditors from 100+ countries and to hear from experts addressing internal audit topics, techniques, and trends impacting your universe. In this newsletter you will find a number of English training courses and new reports from The Institute of Internal Auditors.

This Global Knowledge Brief, the second in a three-part series on governance, risk, and control (GRC), examines the challenges of quantifying non-financial risks and how companies are addressing them, as well as the important role that internal audit can play in advancing understanding in this area.

Click here to read part 1. 

Data analytics for auditors

This course from July 1 until 6 will provide auditors with practical knowledge and skills for embedding data analytics into their audit work. For example, all auditors will learn to write detailed data analytics tests into audit programmes as well as perform common data analysis tasks (validating, transforming, analysis and visualisation) using Excel or their current audit analytics tool.

The practice of Agile internal auditing in your mission

This highly interactive practical training on June 19 uses a workshop format, sharing ideas and practical examples to understand why and how Agile Auditing can be applied in audit missions.

The IIA and the ACFE released Building a Best-in-Class Whistleblower Hotline, a report that examines the key elements of whistleblower hotline programs in workplaces worldwide. Acces the full report and an infographic highlighting more survey findings.

Auditing fraud and financial crime [various dates available]

Fraud and financial crime pose significant risks to the financial health and stability of every organisation. Internal audit needs to be in a good position to provide management with proactive and up-to-date assurance over the effectiveness of controls in these key areas. This course provides the knowledge and tools to help you audit these risks.

Auditing projects, project management and project risk

Failure of a project can have a massive impact on an organisation's reputation and the confidence of its stakeholders. Understanding the dynamics of complex projects is a challenge to every audit team. This course on July 18 and 19 is accompanied by an indexed manual that has course text, examples and practical work.

We would like to invite you to complete the first survey on internal audit practices related to ESG. A survey on the perceived maturity of your organization's internal audit and control practices for information and risk management processes related to non-financial issues.

IIA and EY - Geopolitical insights, ESG, Resilience

During this meeting on June 13, three topics will be discussed in depth by experienced speakers. Geopolitical insights – Update from EY’s Geostrategic Business Group. ESG - Much focus so far on the “E”, but how about the “S” and the “G”? Resilience – Resilience is the ability of firms to prevent, adapt, respond to, recover and learn from operational disruptions.

IT Auditing - basecamp [various dates available ]

If you haven’t conducted an IT audit before, or you’ve only been involved in a couple of IT audits, then this course is the ideal starting point. It aligns to the latest standards and best practice approaches and is updated each year to keep pace with emerging technology. The course will enable you to confidently perform a review of the impact of technology on your organisation.

ECIIA is glad to announce the sixth ECIIA Banking Forum! The theme this year is The role of internal auditors in sustainable banks in Europe. CAEs and Audit Committee members of European Banks are welcome to join us for this edition. The free virtual event will take place on the 23 of October 2023. More details will come soon- in the meantime, save the date!