Essential Auditing Skills

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—gathering information, risk assessment, working paper preparation, and issue development.

Objectives:

• Compose a finding or audit issue
• Choose how to gather evidence for your audit conclusions
• Apply a simple risk assessment model to your audit subject
• Document what you've done in the working papers
• Breakdown the steps of an audit and describe how your work fits in
• Name which standards you must follow
• Recognize when to discuss issues with your supervisor
• Distinguish between over-auditing and under-auditing

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

Program level: Basic

Prerequisites: No prerequisites or advance preparation required

Delivery method: Group live

Recommended CPE credit: 16 hours