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Risk Based Internal Auditing

Auditing every process with equal intensity wastes scarce audit resource on low risk areas while genuine exposures go unexamined, and an annual plan built from a rotation cycle guarantees exactly that. This course covers planning from risk instead. Delegates work through building an audit universe and assessing risk across it, translating that assessment into an annual plan that management and the audit committee will support, and scoping an individual engagement around the risks that matter rather than the whole process. Risk and control matrices and testing proportionate to the risk are covered. Findings, rating and the reporting that gets acted on follow. Follow up and closing findings properly are addressed. The course closes on revising a plan during the year as risks move.

Course objectives

  • Build an audit universe and assess risk across it
  • Translate the assessment into a defensible annual plan
  • Scope an engagement around the risks that matter
  • Build a risk and control matrix and test proportionately
  • Rate findings consistently and report so they are acted on
  • Follow up and close findings properly
  • Revise the plan during the year as risks move

Who should attend

  • Internal auditors and audit team leaders
  • Chief audit executives and audit managers
  • Audit committee members seeking to understand methodology
  • Risk managers working closely with internal audit
  • External auditors moving into internal audit roles

Course outline

  1. 01Equal intensity, unequal risk
  2. 02The audit universe
  3. 03Risk assessment across the universe
  4. 04Building the annual plan
  5. 05Engagement scoping
  6. 06Risk and control matrices
  7. 07Proportionate testing and evidence
  8. 08Findings, reporting, follow up and plan revision

Scheduled sessions

Scheduled sessions for Risk Based Internal Auditing
DatesVenueFormatPriceRegister
12 to 14 October 2026OnlineOnlineR6,500 per delegateRegister Now
26 to 28 October 2026Lagos, NigeriaClassroomUSD 995 per delegateRegister Now
2 to 4 December 2026Johannesburg, South AfricaClassroomR14,950 per delegateRegister Now
8 to 10 March 2027Cape Town, South AfricaClassroomR14,950 per delegateRegister Now

Risk Based Internal Auditing

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