Format: Online
The Quality Assessment Manual, issued in 2024, aligns with the new Global Internal Audit Standards. The Standards contain many updates and clarifications to enhance the profession of internal auditing, some of which will have an impact on external quality assessments. The Standards also seek to elevate the quality of the assessments by requiring an internal audit function to demonstrate not only conformance with the Standards but also performance.
In this open forum, you will gain knowledge and insight into practical applications, opportunities, and challenges from the new Quality Assessment Manual requirements. Please come prepared with your questions for the experts!
DATE: January 14, 2025
TIME: 12:00 PM-1:30 PM ET
One (1) NASBA CPE will only be awarded to participants on the live broadcast who are logged in for a minimum of 50 minutes and engage on at least three poll questions per each hour of the event.
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SPEAKERS
Basil Woller has 40+ years of experience in internal auditing, risk assessment and management, corporate governance, and ethics and compliance. For the past 14 years, he has focused on providing quality services to a broad spectrum of organizations. He has personally conducted 500+ quality assessments during his career. Woller has presented frequently and authored several articles on internal audit quality, facilitates quality assessment training, and authored the latest version of The IIA’s Quality Assessment Manual. He previously led Protiviti’s global external quality assessment services practice and served as Chief Audit Executive at El Paso Corporation. Woller served on The IIA’s board of directors as the International Treasurer and Chairman of the Global Finance Committee. Woller was recently inducted into the North American Hall of Distinguished Audit Practitioners in March 2023.
Keith Kahl is a qualified External Quality Assessor for IIA Quality Services LLC and a Senior Advisor to the IIA’s IA Foundation on the Vision 2035 project. Previously, he served as a Chief Audit Executive for twenty-two years, leading internal audit teams that performed advisory and assurance engagements covering enterprise risks such as financial, cybersecurity, information technology, business operations, manufacturing, ESG (environmental, social and governance), ethics/compliance, and fraud. His total career spanned 40 years in external and internal audit, tax, finance and accounting, investor relations, and operations at global, multi-billion dollar, NYSE companies. He also devotes time to charity activities as an active board member of Changing Young Children’s Lives through Education (CYCLE) and is an advisory board member for Bauer College of Business Accounting Advisory Board. Keith has a BBA in Accounting from Cleveland State University (Cleveland, OH) and an MBA in International Business from DePaul University (Chicago, IL), and is a Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, Chartered Global Management Accountant and holds a Certificate in Risk Management Assurance.
Susan Verghese has been working with the IIA as an independent consultant since 2002, participating and leading External Quality Assessments. She has reviewed Internal Audit functions for about 100 organizations around the world in the financial, manufacturing, healthcare, and technology sectors. She also conducts training on behalf of the IIA in the areas of Ethics, Quality Assessments, etc. Susan has worked at The World Bank Group for about 20 years in multiple roles including coordinating the annual risk assessment; reporting to the Audit Committee, President, and senior management of the World Bank Group; coordinating with the UN and other Multilateral Financial Institutions as well as Industry bodies like IIA, ISACA, etc.
Prior to joining the World Bank, Susan worked in software services organizations, such as IBM, Citibank group, and the Tata Group (TCS and Tata IBM) in India. She has experience in industries such as Retail and Distribution, Manufacturing, Insurance and Banking & Financial Institutions.
Warren Hersh is the Director of Quality Services for the IIA. He was previously Comptroller for the Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority (LYNX), Auditor General and interim CFO for New Jersey Transit, and Internal Audit Director at Jefferson Wells (now Experis) and BDO Seidman. With 40+ years of experience in internal auditing, quality assessment, risk management, fraud prevention/detection, project management, business process analysis/improvement, corporate governance, and IT, he has conducted external quality assessment reviews in many industries and has also helped to establish and improve internal audit functions. Warren served on the IIA’s International Internal Audit Standards Board for 11 years and the International Public Sector Committee for three years. Warren previously served as the President of IIA–Philadelphia and is currently on the Chapter Audit Committee. He presents frequently at industry conferences and is a CIA, CPA, CISA and CFE.