Conducting the Assurance Engagement

Who will benefit from this course?

 This course is intended to  provide  participants with an overview of conducting an assurance engagement, including the various steps necessary to conduct a controls-focused assurance engagement and  the key steps necessary to plan and perform the assurance engagement. This course will benefit any Internal auditor desiring to enhance their skills in conducting assurance engagements.

Course Objectives

• Identify the reasons as to how the purpose of an assurance engagement impacts the audit objectives.
• Identify engagement objectives and scope statements.
• Identify different types and sources of information that will help the internal auditor understand the process of conducting an assurance engagement.
• Identify simple process flows used to show key process steps, interfaces, and the departments involved.
• Identify the differences between key controls and controls that are not considered key.

• Identify the steps used to evaluate the design adequacy of process-level controls.