Here’s your chance to earn 8 CPEs….

The IIA Central Arkansas Chapter is offering an 8 hour seminar!

 

Speaker:        Robert Mainardi       

Topic:            8:30-12:00 - Top 5 Mistakes Audit Makes

                      1:00-4:30 – Communication Cornerstone

Date:              Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Time:             8:00 am – 4:30 pm

                     * Registration 8:00 – 8:30 and 12:30-1:00

Location:        Alltel (now Verizon Wireless) Campus, Building 3, Auditorium

Fee:               Members:  $100/each session or $175 for the entire day

                       Non-Members:  $100/each session

CPE:               8

 

Robert Mainardi

Mainardi & Associates

Speaker Biography:  After 21 years of working in the Internal Audit profession in the financial services industry, Robert has started his own company which develops and facilitates innovative continuing education programs and custom internal audit training as well as evaluates, creates, and implements formal audit methodologies.

Prior to starting his company, Robert L. Mainardi was the Vice President of Internal Audit for the Penn Mutual Life Ins. Co. and was responsible for the direction and oversight of the Internal Audit Department. He was responsible for Penn Mutual’s internal audit activities, as well as those of its subsidiaries, Hornor, Townsend & Kent, Inc., Independence Capital Management, Inc. and Pennsylvania Trust. Other duties included the creation and development of the audit methodology, audit approach, project management, and training curriculum. Prior to joining Penn Mutual, he was a Senior Audit Manager for The Vanguard Group where he was responsible for the Investment Programs & Services and Methods & Infrastructure teams.

He has over 20 years of audit experience and has been an Audit Project Manager and Training Manager for the Aetna US Healthcare Insurance Company, an Audit Director at Prudential Insurance Company of America, and worked in the audit divisions of the Advanta Corporation and the General Motors Acceptance Corporation.

Robert earned his BS from the Pennsylvania State University, where he majored in Accounting and Business Law and an MBA degree in Finance from Temple University. Plus, he has merited the Six Sigma Green Belt certification from the American Society for Quality, which recognizes the recipient for unique expertise in problem-solving and statistical analysis. He also has earned the Qualification in Control Self-Assessment.

He is an IIA Distinguished Faculty Member, a member of the IIA Vision University staff and active in the Philadelphia chapter of The Institute of Internal Auditors.

 

 

Top 5 Mistakes Audit Makes:  This course identifies the top five mistakes that audit departments make and presents solutions for addressing them. In addition, throughout the course, the auditor is challenged with “critical assessment” questions which ask them to take an independent view of their department and assess their department honestly.

 

Communication Cornerstone:  While this program stresses the importance of communication in every phase of an individual audit, it begins by getting back to basics. Back to basics as it pertains to the delivery of the right message each and every time you interact with clients, peers, and other team members. It explains the keys and fundamentals of how to communicate especially with clients throughout all phases of an audit. From this point the course runs through the audit process from developing the audit universe, individual audit planning, fieldwork, reporting, and wrap up. In every phase discussed, the corresponding templates are identified, explained, and mapped to specific communication keys.

 

Registration Information:

If you would like to attend this meeting:

• Send an e-mail to Heather Harris at hharris@SPP.org
• Within the e-mail please state if you will attend one or both sessions and if one which session you will be attending.

 

If you have any questions:

• Please call Shannan Knudsen at 501-905-0823