Learning Certificates

The IIA’s Certificate Programs are designed to enable highly accessible, and flexible, regardless of job level, title, or years of experience.

You can now demonstrate your competency in a specific area and show proof with a certificate. Our current certificates include: Data Analytics and Literacy, Auditing the Cybersecurity Program, IT General Controls, Financial Services Audit, COSO Internal Controls, and COSO Enterprise Risk Management.

Choose from a variety of certificates to prove your understanding of key concepts and principles.

Auditing the Cybersecurity Program Certificate

Auditing the Cybersecurity Program Certificate is designed to ensure the internal audit community possesses the fundamental competencies to effectively assess an organizations cybersecurity governance and management practices, including their cybersecurity program capabilities.

COSO Certificates

Choose from two COSO certificates. The COSO ERM Certificate program offers you the unique opportunity to learn the concepts and principles of the newly updated ERM framework. The COSO Internal Control Certificate program takes you through the COSO Internal Control Integrated Framework.

Data Literacy Certificate: A Journey to Data Analytics

Data is the driving force for most management decisions and many leaders will tell you it is their most valuable asset. For many organizations, it is also their most uncontrolled asset. Over the decades, organizations have created and accumulated an inordinate amount of data and the amount grows daily.

ESG Certificate: Internal Auditing for Sustainable Organizations

As ESG reporting becomes increasingly common, it should be treated with the same care as financial reporting. Organizations need to recognize that ESG reporting must be built on a strategically crafted system of internal controls and accurately reflect how an organization’s ESG efforts relate to each other, the organization’s finances, and value creation.

Financial Services for Internal Auditors Certificate

The IIA’s Financial Services Certificate, a facilitator-led specialty certificate program, will provide you with critical intelligence, guidance, and practical applications to advance a career in financial services internal auditing. The program includes a general financial services foundations unit followed by more in-depth training on liquidity, model risk management, fraud, culture and conduct, and other mission-critical topics.

Fraud Analytics for Internal Auditors Certificate

With the rise in synthetic identities, deep fakes, intelligent bots, and the worldwide increase in scams, internal audit’s ability to participate in the identification, detection, and determent of fraud is critical. As stated in a recent FICO blog, we are in a “Scamdemic”. Today’s auditors need to understand the part data analytics play in the fraud arena. Achieving a certificate in “Fraud Analytics Auditing” is an excellent way to demonstrate your fraud analytics capabilities.

Other Learning Opportunities

In-Person

IIA In-person Learning is multi-day in-person led by seasoned instructors who share real-world experience, reveal leading practices and techniques, and facilitate immersive peer-to-peer knowledge sharing.

Online

Immersive and insightful online learning available from anywhere.

Conferences

The IIA offers a wide variety of dynamic events focused on emerging issues in internal auditing.

Executive Development

The world of internal audit is ever-changing, but that doesn’t mean you can’t stay on top of it.

OnDemand

IIA OnDemand Learning is online and self-paced, perfect for today’s internal audit professionals who want to stay up-to-date on their own time, anywhere, and at their own pace.