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The SOFT Audit: An Integrated Approach Seminar
Learn how to apply the SOFT Audit approach to your internal audit department's assignments. This internal audit approach creates cost effectiveness and efficiencies in an internal audit function.
An integrated S.O.F.T. ("SOFT") audit is an efficient vehicle where financial, compliance, and operational objectives intersect and the most relevant and material tests are completed based on a comprehensive risk and cost/benefit analysis.
By integrating the audit approach, internal audit will be able to:
S - Perform SOX compliance testing that is valuable to management
and the Company.
O - Perform operational reviews that can enhance shareholder value
through control improvement, improved risk management,
operational efficiencies, and direct cost savings.
F - Perform financial statement testing that can be relied upon by
external auditors in some cases.
T - Information Technology ("IT") controls inherent in a company's
financial system and process.
In today's business environment, internal auditors are pulled in too many directions and have more obligations than necessary staffing to commit. Even with the additional guidance from the PCAOB on Auditing Standard No. 5 that will narrow the scope and decrease the workload in regards to SOX compliance, internal audit departments are stretched thin.
This timely, one-day seminar is designed for internal audit management, compliance managers, controllers, CFO’s and others who have to create value within the internal audit function.
Cost of this seminar is $650/Attendee. Each attendee will receive 8 hours of CPE credit. To reserve your space click on the Sign-up Now and fill out a registration form and use a Buy Now button for payment.
Upcoming The SOFT Audit Seminars
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| Atlanta, GA |
March 18, 2010 |
3235 Satellite Boulevard, Duluth, GA |
Charlotte, NC |
March 18, 2010 |
6047 Tyvola Glen Circle |
| Phoenix, AZ |
March 23, 2010 |
3075 West Ray Road, Chandler, AZ |
Columbus, OH |
March 26, 2010 |
470 Olde Worthington Road |
| Las Vegas |
March 29, 2010 |
Fremont Hotel & Casino |
Oakland, CA |
April 8, 2010 |
1200 Clay Street |
| Boston, MA |
April 14, 2010 |
44 Middlesex Turnpike, Bedford, MA |
Pittsburgh, PA |
April 14, 2010 |
201 Penn Center Boulevard |
| Cincinnati, OH |
April 16, 2010 |
250 East Fifth Street |
Washington, DC |
April 22, 2010 |
National Conference Center, Lansdowne, VA |
| Baltimore, MD |
April 22, 2010 |
1997 Annapolis Exchange Parkway, Annapolis, MD |
Chicago |
April 27, 2010 |
222 S. Riverside Plaza |
| Milwaukee, WI |
April 27, 2010 |
20075 Water Tower Boulevard, Brookfield, WI |
New Jersey |
May 3, 2010 |
Dolce Basking Ridge, New Jersey |
| Norwalk, CT |
May 17, 2010 |
32 Weed Avenue |
Salt Lake, UT |
May 24, 2010 |
4393 South Riverboat Road |
| San Diego, CA |
May 25, 2010 |
1230 Columbia Street |
Phoenix, AZ |
May 28, 2010 |
1620 South Stapley Drive, Mesa, AZ |
| Little Rock, AR |
June 2, 2010 |
10800 Financial Centre Parkway |
Houston |
June 10, 2009 |
Audimation Services, Inc., 1250 Wood Branch Park Drive, Suite 480 |
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Refer to the Geographic Area Pages for listings in your area. Call us for seminars after June 30.
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Seminar Highlights
- SOFT Audit Methodology Defined
- Best Practices in the Internal Audit Function
- ICFR is a Management Function
- Value of Operational Auditing
- One Audit Several Objectives
- How to Manage the External Auditors
- Defining Integarted Auditing
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Learning Objectives
- Attendees will understand how risk assessments drive internal audit's activities
- Attendees will see how to improve the effectiveness of audits
- Attendees will learn how to use an integrated approach
- Attendees will improve their relationship with their external auditors
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Key Issues on the Agenda
Registration
Section 1 - Introduction and Background
- What is the SOFT Audit
- Where did SOFT Audit originate
- Where is SOFT Audit applicaible
- Why use the SOFT Audit Approach
Section 2 - S - Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
- SOX Optimization
- Key Control Indentification
- Testing Methodology
Section 3 - O - Operational
- What is an Operational Audit
- What is the Value of an Operational Audit
- Effectively Utilizing Operational Audit
- Intersection with SOX Compliance
Section 4 - F - Financial
- Financial Auditing Overview
- Managing your External Auditors
- Intersection with S and O
Section 5 - T- Information Technology
- CoBIT Overview
- Best Practice IT Compliance
- Key Areas - SOX - Overall
- System Development
- System Implementation
- Continuous Auditing/Monitoring
Section 6 - Going Forward
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