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Process Flow
Auditing
A Unique Methodology for Focusing Audits on the Organisation's Core
Business Functions
Course Director Greg Duckert
30 years of Internal Audit experience including over 25 years of experience
in data centric risk assessment and progressive audit techniques.
Learn how to use process flow auditing to analyse and break down
a business into its core process
Focus on an integrated approach to auditing that will assist you in
your Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts, help control costs, and
maximise risks
Explore the critical role of data in process reviews and analyses
Find out how to apply business-oriented risk assessment
techniques to key process
MIS past delegates include...
ABN AMRO, Alliance & Leicester, Barclays, BT, Canon, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC,
JP Morgan Chase, National Audit Office, Reuters, Vodafone, Sony, UBS
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Process Flow
Auditing
A Unique Methodology for
Focusing Audits on the
Organisation's Core Business
Functions
17th - 19th September 2008, Helsinki, Finland
The course finishes at 12.00 on the final day
Seminar Focus & Features
In this three-day seminar you will learn how to use process flow
auditing (PFA) to analyse and breakdown a business into its core
processes and to identify high-payback areas. You will focus on
operational auditing and its interaction with IT auditing to arrive at an
integrated approach to audits that will help control costs, minimise
risks and exposures, and maximise your understanding of the
business. You will explore the critical role of data in process reviews
and analysis, determining how to apply business-oriented risks
assessment techniques to the key processes of your organisation.
You will also learn alternative audit tools and methodologies you can
use to make your engagements highly effective, boost productivity,
and maximise payback.
Course Director Greg Duckert
Greg Duckert, is CEO of Audit, Inc., a consulting firm specialising in
risk assessment models, operational analysis, and audit process
methodologies designed to maximise returns to the organisation.
Mr. Duckert is also a Senior Consultant for MIS Training Institute.
He has over 27years of national and international experience as an
Internal/IS Audit Director.
Mr. Duckert has held Audit Director positions in the manufacturing,
construction and healthcare industries, assuming responsibilities for
financial, operational, and information systems auditing functions.
Mr Duckert s information systems expertise includes application
audits, software acquisition, systems development, controls, security
design, adequacy and implementation, and systems’ operational
efficiencies.
Mr Duckert has performed consulting services in IS, financial, and
operational audits, as well as in business acquisitions and start-ups.
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Previous attendees
EXCELLENT MOTIVATION EMPLOYED INNOVATIVE AND
HIGHLY EFFECTIVE METHOD OF BUSINESS PROCESS
EVALUATION AND IMPROVEMENT
Hewlett-Pacard
VERY INTERESTING AND RELEVANT FOR MY JOB
SITUATION
Senior Advisor, National Audit Office

Who Should Attend
Audit Directors and Managers; Internal, External, and Information
Technology Auditors
Prerequisite
Fundamentals of Internal Auditing or equivalent experience
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Day One
Day Two
Learning level
Intermediate
Fee
GBP £1,895
IIA Finland Members £1,705.50
Day Three
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• What are your training objectives
Process Flow Auditing:
Primary Function
Understanding the
Business
• Primary interdependencies
• Core structure analysis and why it
is important
• Understanding the structure:
Sarbanes-Oxley and COSO-ERM
analysis
Tools, Techniques, and
Approaches for
Maximising Efficiency
• Traditional tools and techniques:
are they applicable to processbased
auditing
• One-on-one interviewing
• Narratives
• Flowcharting
• Group-based audit methodology
• Top-down flowchart
• Data flow diagrams
• Cause-and-effect diagrams
• Generalised audit software
Risk-Intense/Value-Added
Processes
• Focusing on business risks
• Identifying key processes and
what makes them critical
• Using data to determine risk
• Using risk to establish primary
control points
• Maximising returns
Applying PFA to
Operational Areas
• Key operational areas, how they
link to primary financial
processes, and the relationship to
Sarbanes-Oxley
• Correlating costs to risk
assessment
• Process chains: what the auditor
needs to know
• Identifying key performance
indicators
• Operational risks in the context of
your business
• Creating ongoing management
oversight vs. crisis management
• Linking operations to the corporate
strategic mission
• Critical questions to ask process
owners in order to evaluate risk
oversight effectiveness
Applying PFA to IS/IT
• Identifying the organisation's core
systems
• Five critical risk/control zones
• Impact of IS/IT on the primary
business operations
• Understanding data flow
• Relating systems to the process
flow review
• Key risk points and challenges
surrounding IS/IT
PFA Case Study
• IA's Role and Identity
The course finishes at 12.00 on
the final day.
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Process Flow Auditing
A Unique Methodology for Focusing Audits on the Organisation's Core
Business Functions
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Key topic areas
• Learn how to use process flow auditing to analyse and break down a
business into its core process
• Focus on an integrated approach to auditing that will assist you in your
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts, help control costs, and maximise
risks
• Explore the critical role of data in process reviews and analyses
• Find out how to apply business-oriented risk assessment techniques to
key process
Why should you attend
• MIS Training is the global leader in internal audit training, having trained
over 200,000 delegates
• Course Instructors are the most reputable in the industry
• We have an impressive client list including Novo Nordisk, Statoil,
Telenor AS, Unitor ASA & Volvo, to name a few
• Earn CPE points - which can be used to qualify/maintain a an IRM,
ICAEW, CIMA, ACCA, IIA or PRMIA
17th - 19th September 2008, Helsinki, Finland
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