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Risk Based Integrated Auditing™ (RBIA)

  • Dramatically increase internal audit value
  • Significantly increase audit productivity
  • Cut internal audit costs

RBIA is an internal audit approach that dramatically increases audit value and productivity by assembling self-directed work teams to focus on business risk. RBIA contains business based risk/control assessment tools (not audit theory based) that relate to the way executives run businesses. The self-directed audit team structures are specifically designed for internal auditing.

The RBIA methodology complements the risk/control assessment tools and enables the audit teams to deliver fast, focused audits that deliver value well in excess of cost. The objective of RBIA is to establish internal auditing as the center of excellence in business based risk/control assessment tools. See our seminar schedule for the next available RBIA seminar.

RBIA has proven very successful in increasing productivity and value. Comments from General Auditors include:

"We've gotten three times the value with half the staff."

"We've doubled our productivity in the first quarter over all of the prior year."

All RBIA audit departments that are consistently applying the concepts are reporting an increase in the number of auditors promoted out of the department. All are reporting an increase in the number of people expressing an interest in moving into the internal audit department. All are involved in addressing more important business risks which elevate the audit's presence in the company.

RBIA will allow you to cut the costs of an internal audit department.


RBIA Seminars

Public RBIA courses are scheduled several times each year in the USA.  The regularly scheduled public RBIA courses readily facilitate ongoing training for audit departments. In addition, in-house courses are held on a worldwide basis and are scheduled to meet our customers needs. RBIA has been held in Europe, the Middle East, and in Australia.

The RBIA course is five days in duration. Three dayss involve discussion of the value, theory, organization and methodology concepts. The remaining two days demonstrate the application of RBIA to two difficult case studies that have been derived from real life audits.

Over 3,000 auditors have been trained in RBIA. See other parts of this web page for information concerning the Inside RBIA newsletter and other RBIA support products.

Program Learning Objectives

Today's fact of corporate life: companies treat audit departments as overhead cost centers; every overhead cost function must produce value greater than cost to survive; companies want their audit department to help improve the company's control environment, not play "point the finger" games. RBIA is based on these common sense business principles. You will learn how to run the audit department on business principles, not traditional audit theoretical concepts. You will learn how to audit the risks that threaten your customer's ability to be successful. You will learn how to deliver value greater than cost on every audit.

Program Content

Theory

  • Audit Value Governance-Management-Performance Tool
  • Business Function Analysis Tool
  • Limits of Risk Tool
  • Management Control Structure Tool
  • Business Controls for Processes & Systems Tool
  • Sarbanes - Oxley 404 software tool

Methodology

  • Developing the Audit Universe
  • Audit Value Circle
  • Identifying the Audit Customer
  • Determining Business Risks
  • Team Success Objectives
  • Limits of Risk
  • Management Control Structure
  • Forming Risk Driven Hypothesis
  • Testing and the Standard of Proof
  • Communicating the Results
  • Documentation
  • Continuous Monitoring

Organization

  • Hierarchies vs Teams
  • Audit Department Organization Structure
  • Roles of Team Members
  • Scheduling
  • Success Measures

Instructional Method

Group-live offering

Course Level and Prerequisites

Intermediate. No prerequistes or advanced preparation is required.

What You Will Learn

  • Define and measure audit value
  • Select audit subjects to significantly increase audit value to key audit customers (not middle management)
  • Deal with critical audit issues over project or process re- engineering governance
  • Apply fundamental control concepts in business systems and processes
  • Assess and measure business risk to identify and eliminate over control
  • Identify and appraise management control structures to minimize the time spent testing detailed controls
  • Reduce audit management overheads by organizing in self-directed audit teams
  • Apply fast and inexpensive audit tests to reduce audit cost and increase value

Who Should Attend

  • General Auditors looking for new ideas
  • Audit managers looking for ways to increase productivity
  • Auditors who want to learn to work in teams effectively

Product Code: 804
CPE Credits: 40 hrs
Duration: 5 days
Price: $1,395.00

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    Is RBIA Right For My Department?
    Basic Questions and Answers relating to Risk Based Integrated Auditing. Answers the questions: What is RBIA? Who will be the winners? The loosers? Does RBIA comply with professional standards? Will a change in audit charter be needed? What are the benefits of RBIA to me? What support is offered to an RBIA audit department? Are you a General Auditor considering the conversion to RBIA? If so, this book will help you through the thought process. It answers the most commonly asked questions about how RBIA will deliver the value and productivity you are looking for. RBIA is not suitable for every internal audit department. For example, those internal audit departments whose operating philosophy is to be the corporate cops, or rigid procedure enforcers should select an audit approach that is better suited to those objectives. If however, your vision of your internal audit department is to be recognized as a major contributor to helping your Vice Presidents accomplish their business objectives, if you want to dramatically increase your value and productivity and personally be seen as someone who can help the company move the ball forward, then RBIA has been specifically designed for you. Is RBIA Right for My Department? will help you answer the questions you have about initiating such a change in your internal audit department.

    AUDIT TEAM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (ATMS)
    Click here for details. Download Product Brochure (4 page PDF) . License fee is based on number of auditors/number of servers. Call for pricing.



    RBIA ANALYZER
    The objective of the RBIA Analyzer is to assist you to understand how an audit, that did not follow the RBIA process, became an expensive embarrassment to an audit department and lost all value in the eyes of a senior corporate executive. Click here for details.



    Implementing RBIA Book
    Written for General Auditors contemplating the move to RBIA. Contains a full discussion of the implementation issues that need to be addressed; development of a mission statement and setting goals for the implementation; how to market RBIA to the Audit Committee; how to market RBIA to the executives of your company; preparing Human Resources and the Legal department for the changes in team evaluations; success measures required of Audit Executives; how to obtain the subject matter expertise that you need; bringing your auditors on board with the change to RBIA.   Disk copies of sample presentations included.  Sample RBIA marketing presentations for: The Audit Committee Executives, Human Resources, and Your Audit Department (Available in Microsoft PowerPoint and WordPerfect Presentations)




    Welcome to Self-Directed Work Teams
    Basic Questions and Answers relating to working in Self-Directed Work Teams Answers the questions: What is a self-directed work team? How does it impact my work? This booklet is ideal for internal audit, systems, finance and operations teams.




    Audit Fundamentals on CD-ROM
    The OSTERIO Group's popular "Audit Fundamentals" seminar is now on CD.  A four-hour interactive version of our one-day seminar is ideal for new auditors joining your department.  Designed specifically to be part of your audit department's orientation program, Audit Fundamentals provides the information needed to allow new recruits to hit the ground running at a timing that suits YOU! The full one-day Audit Fundamentals seminar will still be scheduled at all public Risk Based Integrated Auditing™ seminars around the country.  The live courses will still provide the benefits of interactive discussion and CPE credits, but our schedule may not suit your recruiting schedule.  If you need a way to get new hires up to speed quickly, the CD needs to be part of your new auditor orientation program. The Audit Fundamentals CD consists of approximately 4 to 5 hours of instruction in 11 sections.  New auditors can go through the CD all at once, or progressively as their schedule and work load allows.  At the end of the instruction is a Q&A review, which takes the auditor back to the correct section of the instruction to review the information for any incorrect answers. Audit Fundamentals CDs can be rerun as many times as needed by as many auditors as you have.  The annual license fee for each company is $95 per auditor per year (based on the number of auditors in your audit department).  The minimum license fee is $495 per year. 




    Is RBIA Right for our Audit Group?
    If your vision of your internal audit department is to be recognized as a major contributor to helping your Vice Presidents accomplish their business objectives, if you want to dramatically increase your value and productivity and personally be seen as someone who can help the company move the ball forward, then RBIA has been specifically designed for you. Is RBIA Right for our Audit Group is part of the RBIA 4-step process. The cost of this CD is applicable towards your RBIA seminar fee if you sign up for a seminar.


    Team Members Guide to RBIA
    The Team Member’s Guide to RBIA is the essential reference guide to Risk Based Integrated Auditing™. This book contains an overview of the basics of RBIA. It covers the concept of value creation from an internal auditing perspective and shows how RBIA dramatically improves value and significantly increases productivity. The components of the RBIA approach are covered. The Team Member’s Guide to RBIA covers the theory component of the approach that consists of business control tools from the Governance, Management and Performance levels. The audit teams apply these tools to review risk/control issues in each audit. The organization component of RBIA is covered with a discussion on how to flatten internal audit organization structures and implement self-directed work teams. The roles of the Audit Executive and team members are covered along with critical success measures for each position. The unique RBIA methodology, which is used in self-directed work teams, is explained in detail. By following the RBIA methodology, organizing in self-directed work teams and applying the business control theory tools, internal audit departments will radically increase their value and productivity. A question and answer section is also included. The answers listed are responses to the most commonly asked questions from RBIA team members. They are designed to help new team members understand how the RBIA approach applies to them and to help them work more effectively on self-directed work teams.




    Audit Executives Guide to RBIA
    The Audit Executive’s Guide to RBIA provides the basic information that Audit Executives need to know to be effective in an RBIA internal audit department. The same discussion of value and the RBIA overview as described in the Team Member’s Guide is included. This will provide Audit Executives with an understanding of the concepts that they are responsible for managing. A question and answer section specifically tailored to the concerns of Audit Executives is included. The questions are those most commonly asked by Audit Executives and cover such issues as their roles on audit teams, interfacing with their assigned Audit Customers, deciding on the risks to be addressed, allocating auditors to multiple, concurrent teams, managing performance issues and interfacing with other Audit Executives and their customers. Since Audit Executives are also team members in their own right, the Audit Executive’s Guide to RBIA includes the same questions and answers included in the Team Member’s Guide. This will provide Audit Executives with an overview of the issues that their team members will likely be dealing with. It will also help them in their role on their own teams.



    General Auditors Guide to RBIA
    The General Auditor’s Guide to RBIA provides the basic information that General Auditors need to know to effectively manage their RBIA internal audit department. The same discussion of value and the RBIA overview as described in the Team Member’s Guide is included. This will provide General Auditors with an understanding of the RBIA concepts that their teams are working with. A question and answer section specifically tailored to the concerns of General Auditors is included. The questions are those most commonly asked by General Auditors and cover such issues as: recruiting for Audit Executives, allocating Audit Executives to the Vice Presidents, monitoring the performance of Audit Executives, staffing an RBIA audit department, determining staff reward policies, issue escalation policies, interfacing with the audit committee and measuring the success of the internal audit department. Since General Auditors can also be team members in their own right, and are definitely Audit Executives assigned to the Senior Management Team of the company, the Audit Executive’s Guide and the Team Member’s Guide questions and answers are also included. This will provide insight to General Auditors of the roles and success measures of all positions in an RBIA department. The General Auditor’s Guide to RBIA is also valuable for any team member to explain the issues that Audit Executives and General Auditors have to deal with.



    RBIA Work Paper Forms and Documentation
    Computer documentation forms to use in accordance with the Risk Based Integrated Auditing™ approach. The software contains forms for:

    • Team Success Objectives
    • Audit Close-Out Memos
    • Risk/Control Matrix Worksheets
    • Risk Identification/Disposition Forms
    • Interview Worksheets
    • Audit Report/Presentation
    • Audit Evaluation Forms

    Once trained in RBIA, the workpaper forms will allow you to document a complete audit. Don't waste time designing workpapers!   Ensure consistency by all auditors!  RBIA Workpaper Forms software is the answer. RBIA Workpaper Forms contains all the forms that are needed in order to complete an RBIA internal audit. Conveniently formatted in Microsoft Word and WordPerfect documents, each form can be expanded or modified to suit the specific requirements of each internal auditing department. RBIA Workpaper Forms eliminates the time consuming exercise of developing work paper forms. This is always an onerous exercise that consumes an inordinate amount of time. Each auditor has their own idea of what the work paper forms should look like and many audit departments waste too much time reaching consensus on what the documentation should look like instead of focusing that energy on increasing value to the company. By using RBIA Workpaper Forms, the management of the audit department can eliminate this wasted time all together. In addition, the RBIA Workpaper Forms ensure consistency across all teams. Auditors who move from one team to another are looking at the same, consistent documentation. NOTE: RBIA Workpaper Forms software will only be valuable to you if you have attended the Risk Based Integrated Auditing™course and are using the RBIA methodology. The forms in the software are specifically tailored to this methodology.



    Integrating IT Book
    This book explains how auditors can increase audit value and efficiency by utilizing IT audit expertise in a Risk Based Integrated Audit™ environment. It answers information systems audit questions which arise when RBIA is implemented in an audit department.   This book is valuable for both IS auditors and audit department management.



    Quick Reference Laminated Cards
    Risk Based Integrated Auditing™ (Product Code: 890)
    RBIA Audit Quality Review Guidelines (Product Code: 891)
    Project Governance Best Practices (Product Code: 892)
    Business Controls for Processes and Systems™ (Product Code:893)
    Set of all four (Produce Code: 894)
    Laminated quick reference cards are 8.5 x 11 inches, double-sided



    Motorsport Sponsorship Audit Guide
    An affiliate company of The OSTERIO Group is heavily involved in the professional motorsport business. We are often asked to help the internal audit departments of companies who sponsor motorsport activities to devise an approach to auditing their sponsorship program. We have developed a Motorsport Sponsorship Audit Guide to help such internal audit departments. The guide is written in the same format as the Risk Based Integrated Auditing™ work papers and includes a typical Team Success Objectives section and the Risk/Control Worksheet. The Motorsport Sponsorship Audit Guide covers the biggest risks your company faces in motorsport sponsorship and outlines a Management Control Structure aimed at k eeping those risks within acceptable limits. The guide will help you through any motor sports sponsorship audit you are scheduled to perform.

     

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Integrating IT Book
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