IIA – Austin Chapter Seminar
Small Audit Shop – Challenges, Opportunities & Emerging Practices
May 13^th and 14^{th
8:30am to 5:00pm}
Price $275 members and $325 non-members

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Location – Holiday Inn Town Lake 

Course Description:
This seminar is a condensed version of the IIA’s highly rated “Strategies for Managing the Small Audit Shop” program. At the beginning of the session, participant’s interests and needs will be discussed and used to customize the program. Ultimately, this highly participative session will help participants deal with challenging issues, take advantage of potential opportunities, and identify a manageable number of action items to improve their small audit shop’s capability.

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Course Outline:

Day One - Lunch is included in seminar price

Adding Value and Maintaining Independence

•           Independence - Relationships and Attitudes
•           Delivering Value-added Services
•           Audit Charters – Required Content and Emerging Practices

Creating Business Risk-Based Audit Plan

• Business Risk Assessment Primer
• Risk Assessment – Benchmarking and Emerging Practices
• Communicating the Audit Plan and Audit Committee Reporting
• Doing More with Less: Staffing Strategies and Practices
• Small Audit Shop Staffing Strategies
• Effective Utilization of Staffing Resources

Day Two - Lunch is on your own

Emerging Internal Audit Roles: Opportunities and Challenges

• Risk Management, Control and Governance

Building a Better Audit Process

• Benchmarking and Self-assessment Activities
• Audit Process Gap/Opportunity Analysis 
• Emerging Practices/What Works Best For You Discussion

“Rightsizing” Your Quality Assurance & Improvement Program

• Creating a Small Audit Shop Internal Assessment Program
• Small Audit Shop External Assessment Options and Getting Ready for the Review

Putting It All Together – Prioritizing Your Next Steps

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Donald Epersen, CIA

Donald Espersen, CIA, is an independent risk/control advisor and internal auditor based in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. His firm, despersen & associate, specializes in the design/delivery customized training programs and internal audit quality improvement activities. He has worked with client groups in Asia, Canada, Europe, Mexico, the Middle East, South America, and the United States.

Prior to forming despersen & associate in 1999, Espersen held a variety of Chief Audit Executive internal audit management and staff positions in several financial services organizations. Don Is one of the primary facilitators for The Institute of Internal Auditor’s (IIA) Chief Audit Executive’s Vision University series. Additionally, he has developed and led many of the Institutes seminars.

Espersen is an active member of the IIA. He currently is a member of the Board of Research & Educational Advisors, and is the co-editor of the Internal Auditors “Risk Watch” column,. He is also an IIA distinguished faculty member, holds The IIA’s accreditation in Internal Quality Assessment/Validation, and has a B.S. in Business from the University of Minnesota.Biographical Information

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