Risk Based Internal Audit

Internal audit earns its standing on two things: whether it looks in the right places, and whether anything changes as a result. This programme covers risk based planning, fieldwork that gathers evidence rather than confirmation, and reporting written so that a finding leads to a decision instead of a defensive response.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Build an audit plan driven by assessed risk rather than by cycle.
• Design tests that would actually detect the failure they target.
• Gather and document evidence to a standard that survives challenge.
• Write findings that establish cause, effect and a workable recommendation.

Internal auditors, audit managers, risk officers and those preparing to move into an internal audit function.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A risk based annual audit plan.
• A test programme for one assessed risk area.
• An evidence and working paper standard.
• A finding written to cause and effect with an agreed action.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.