Essential Skills for the Beginning Auditor

After several projects, the new auditor begins to understand his or her role in the audit process. Without an understanding of key auditor skills, the new auditor could easily spend valuable audit hours doing the wrong thing. New auditors will feel more comfortable doing their work once they understand the essentials of performing fieldwork—interviewing, working paper preparation, and issue development.

In this course, you'll learn:

• How to develop a finding or audit issue
• How to gather evidence for your audit conclusions
• How to document what you've done in the working papers
• How to plan, conduct, and document an interview
• What the steps of an audit are and how your work fits in
• Which standards you must follow
• When to discuss issues with your supervisor and when to seek help
• How to distinguish between over-auditing and under-auditing
• What the project budget is and how to operate within it
• How to enhance your value to your organization

Who should attend: Auditors with less than one year of audit experience.

Length: 4 to 24 hours