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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
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Apply fundamental control concepts in business systems and processes
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Assess and measure business risk to identify and eliminate over control
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Identify and appraise management control structures to minimize the
time spent testing detailed controls
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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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RBIA Products
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)
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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 Members 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
Members 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 Executives 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 Members 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
Executives Guide to RBIA includes the same questions and answers
included in the Team Members 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 Auditors 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 Members 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 Executives Guide and the Team Members
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 Auditors 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:
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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 Auditingcourse
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
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Risk
Based Integrated Auditing (Product Code: 890)
RBIA
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Project
Governance Best Practices (Product Code: 892)
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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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