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.

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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

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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Experts Providing Training Seminars

Corporate Compliance Seminars was founded by experts who enjoy researching and providing classroom training, workshops and consulting on internal controls, auditing, compliance and accounting related subjects. We focus on SOX, COSO, PCAOB, COBIT, GRC, risk management, IFRS and IIA Standards.

Corporate Compliance Seminars allows attendee to earn Official NASBA CPE credit while examining the details of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR), Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) Internal Control Frameworks, ISACA's Control Objectives over Information Technology (COBIT), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Open Compliance & Ethics Group's (OCEG)Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) methodology, PCAOB's Auditing Standard 5 (AS5), and the future conversion from GAAP to the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

Our training seminars provide CPE For CPAs, CFEs, CIAs, CISAs, auditors and others with effective and engaging educational training.