Internationally Renowned Educator Dr. Dan Kneer Brings His Unique

Expertise to Central Ohio for a 3 Day Audit Camp

September 15^th to 17^th – 24 Hours CPE

Dr. Dan Kneer has turned his rich background in audit practice and education into an enthusiasm for training internal auditors all over the world to “Audit Smarter, Not Harder™.” Dr. Dan, as he is widely known to his students, uses a hands-on approach in his on-site courses to teach practical and proven audit tools. He takes complicated subjects such as advanced analytic statistics or continuous control monitoring and demystifies them with real-life examples and everyday language that students can relate to and remember.

Dr. Dan’s programs are targeted, results-oriented, and motivational. He considers his student to be the key component to the learning experience. This training includes free post-class support that allows him to monitor his students’ success. “I seek to empower internal auditors and make their jobs easier and more fun,” he says.

Dr. Dan’s expertise stems from his “two parallel careers” with more than 30 years of audit practice and 18 years as a tenured full-time professor at Arizona State University’s School of Business. He is currently the president of the Dr. Dan Kneer Advisory Group based in San Diego, and leads conference sessions, seminars, and webinars all over the world. For many years, he has been a favorite speaker and instructor at IIA local, regional and international events. The “Advanced Analytics” course he’ll teach in Columbus is the same one offered at the 2010 IIA International Conference in Atlanta in June.

Advanced Analytics – Days 1 and 2

(his most popular course)

Are you aware of the 5 types of Analytical Procedures (AP), and each ones Pro’s and Con’s (hint: ratio analysis is of little value). In this course you will learn all 5 types of APs with an emphasis on the BEST ONE…regression analysis. Regression analysis is supported by the IIA (Practice Advisory 2320-1), the AICPA (SAS 56) and the Yellow Book. And regression IS ON YOUR LAPTOP!!

“Raise the bar” in your audit shop. Audit research shows that APs are the cheapest AND most effective audit technique…with the biggest “value added” to the auditee. Additionally, APs are the #1 fraud finding technique. Savvy auditors use regression to figure out “where to audit” (let the data talk to you) and “if to audit.”

The analysis of 9,000 audit applications of regression found that:

1. Your application does not, at all, need to be complex (1, or at most, 2 independent variables seems sufficient) and
2. You do get high r-squares…which can lead to reductions of scope.

APs provide 1/2 of the 1-2 punch of Continuous Control Monitoring. You’ll learn how to construct management dashboards in Visual Basic and then give out Advanced Analytics to the Business Unit Managers so they may monitor themselves. These dashboards provide the incentive, and tool set, for business unit managers to willingly buy-in to Control Self Assessment too. More good news: your external auditors will start to use the analytics, as evidentiary matter. That’s a great way to hold costs down!

THIS CLASS IS 100% HANDS-ON, WITH SEVERAL COMPUTERIZED CASES (OFFICE 97-2003 AND 2007).

 Continuous Control Monitoring (CCM): Tactical & Practical…

HOW TO DO IT – Day 3

In every other aspect of our lives, we want continuous input (i.e. auto pilot on an airplane, windshields that senses that you are sleeping). Manufacturing and robotics has had CCMs for decades (think process control, six sigma). Finally, the business world is being nudged into CCM by the COSO

Dr. Dan has been viewed as a “father” of the CCM movement, having taught CCM as back far as 1982. Further, Dr. Dan has actually installed CCM systems into businesses since 1984. He knows this stuff. This is your chance to be the fire starter…your company’s thought leader in the CCM movement.

In this course you’ll learn the 4 components of CCM, and the necessary 1-2 punch of:

• Advanced Analytics and
• Embedded Control Monitoring (in SAP, Oracle, etc.)

You will apply the mechanism necessary for CCM. Additionally, you will learn how to quantify core process business rules into Critical Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators thus being able to build a prototype CCM, in Visual Basic, and design management dashboards.

The amazing thing about CCM is its potential lack of cost; CCM is expansive…not necessarily expensive. How can this be true? Most of what you need to build CCM is already within your business! You’re running SAP, Oracle or whatever…which has the embedded controls, called configurables or triggers, and regression analysis is in Excel, SAS or Business Objects.

He’ll discuss the necessary buy-ins needed to “get CCM going” along with many wins and the some tough questions like, “How do we ‘win over’ both the business unit manager and…IT?” You will be given a lot of the necessary methodology (macro and micro level) to ramp up a CCM application…local or entity-wide. 

Registration and payment instructions:

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Please contact the Treasurer, Amy Schwartz at 614-480-5563 or aschwartziia@yahoo.com for any payment questions.

Updated 4/21/10