Project Management Skills for Internal Auditors
Details
The course provides participants with the skills and techniques necessary to embed project management methods into the internal audit process. Formal project management methodologies can help reduce and alleviate many of the struggles with delays, prioritization, scope, and timeliness auditors routinely face. The tools and techniques shared can be immediately implemented in every audit process.
Outline
Project Management Overview
- Fundamentals of project management
- Benefits of formal project management
- Project characteristics
- Phases of project management
- Project management case studies
Project Management Fundamentals
- Project Management Institute (PMI) framework
- Cornerstones of project management
- Gantt charts
- Critical paths
- Work breakdown structure
- Dependencies and scheduling
- Scope
Audits as Formal Projects – Planning
- Translating project steps into audit steps
- Choosing and modifying project tools for audits
- Formal scoping approaches – SIPOC/visual tools
Audits as Formal Projects – Executing, Monitoring, and Controlling
- Monitoring and controlling the audit like a project
- Measurements and metrics for audits: schedule, budget to actual, etc.
- Formal change management to minimize scope change/creep
- Communicating results – Leveraging the 5 C’s
- Lessons learned and post-mortems for continual improvement
Formal Project Communication Plans
- External communication plan – audit client
- Internal communication plan – audit team
- Understanding the difference between information and communication
- Expectations and consistency
- Reporting
TRAINING METHODOLOGY
The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.
Speaker/s
Special Offer
Schedules
Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri | 10:00 AM — 04:00 PM |
No. of Days: | 4 |
Alpha Partners is a reputable firm of Training and Management Consultants with many years of corporate training experience in Finance, Accounting, Auditing, Banking, Management, Information Technology, Oil and Gas Sector, Security, Engineering, Public Relations, Secretarial Studies, Leadership, Marketing and other fields of human endeavour.
We are one of the leading players in the profession. Our firm, a multi-disciplinary one with highly talented, experienced and dedicated partners and staff who have experiences in different facets of working life was established in 1996 and has branches in Lagos, Enugu and Awka.
We offer a wide range of professional services, which covers audits, accounting, finance, taxation, ICT, security, engineering, insurance, human resources management, secretarial and consultancy services in all ramifications.
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