COURSE OBJECTIVES: This course provides a process-oriented approach to assessing business activities, in contrast to more traditional audit approaches. Risk is usually less understood, less well controlled and less well audited where a business activity cuts across a number of sections of the business.
During the course we will:
- Clarify the nature of risks and of typical control weaknesses with respect to business activities where responsibility is shared between a number of groups within and perhaps also outside the business
- Give participants a good understanding of how to audit business processes
- Equip participants with the techniques to evaluate a wide range of business activities
- Prepare participants to be effective in improving the quality of performance - both the better achievement of objectives as well as the more reliable avoidance of unwanted exposures and outcomes
COURSE CONTENT
- Determining the fundamental business processes of an organisation
- Approaches to reviewing business processes
- Evaluating operational performance
- Developing business processes review programmes
- Internal control and risk management as processes for achieving objectives
- Reviewing the business as a number of processes and cycles rather than as functional areas
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Those with business process review responsibilities - especially internal auditors, technical inspectors, quality assurance and quality management personnel and consultants, other management consultants and external auditors as well as managers and staff embarked upon programmes of control risk self assessment. It is suitable for both public and private sector participants.
"The delivery of the content was pitched at just the right level and Andrew was both knowledgeable and objective."
"Supporting material very detailed and exhaustive."
This course is designed to be run either as an in-house course or as a training pool title only. For more information on how the training pool works please click on the Quorum Training Pool item in the menu on the left of this page.
To enquire about this course please complete the enquiry form or call our in-house course bookings team on 0207 566 8207.