Technology allows auditors to look for anomalies like never before, but its use is no substitute for individual skills, including the ability to think! Professional auditors can leverage technology paired with new insights from behavioral science to better address current challenges. The result can be greater service to their organizations along with professional and personal satisfaction.

This seminar includes case examples, individual and group exercises to explore risks and exposures in specific industry environments, plus an update on fraud, project failure, and use of technology. The speaker also will share proven approaches for personal growth and professional success. Topics to be addressed include:

• The Internal Auditors’ focus: Risk and controls
• Defining success in Internal Auditing
• Important audit contributions – Building credibility
• Exploring real risks
• Three keys to successful auditing and management
• Getting audit intelligence
• Directing audit resources – What are we missing?
• Behavioral skills for auditing effectiveness
• Thinking and decision-making
• Audit practice observations – Planning, testing & reporting results