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Conducting an audit engagement
Your audit conclusions need to rest on a clear, structured approach. Plan your engagements, gather evidence and formulate actionable findings. Strengthen your ability to lead discussions and deliver recommendations that help the managers of audited activities.
- Duration
- 4 days 28 hours
- Code
- AI210FR Code
Presentation
This course teaches the essential knowledge needed to conduct an audit engagement in your professional role. Practical scenarios help you learn the good practices to follow and the pitfalls to avoid.
Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will:
- have acquired or consolidated theoretical and practical knowledge of audit engagement delivery, including methodology, technical tools and behavioural skills;
- have practised applying this knowledge in representative situations;
- be able to use these skills in their operational work.
Methodology
- Presentations and individual or group practical exercises, in small groups or plenary sessions.
- Each participant receives course materials at the start of the training. Covering the key content presented by the instructor, these materials provide space for additional notes, including plenary workshop outcomes, and support the exercises and case studies.
Program
- General concepts.
- The responsibilities of the audit department.
- The head of audit, engagement managers, auditors and assistants.
- Audit performance monitoring indicators.
- The annual audit program.
- The annual report on the state of internal control.
- The audit engagement cycle:
- Preparing the engagement.
- Conducting the audit work.
- Drafting the audit report.
- Validating the report.
- Following up on the implementation of recommendations.
- The auditor's toolkit:
- The engagement letter.
- Permanent files and the engagement file.
- The work plan.
- Functional analysis.
- Risk mapping.
- The internal control questionnaire.
- The who, what, where, when, how, how much and why framework (QQOQCCP).
- Audit fundamentals.
- The Pareto principle.
- Sampling.
- Procedure manuals.
- Flowcharts.
- Checks and controls.
- The probability/severity matrix.
- The causal tree.
- Benchmarking.
- Brainstorming.
- The problem identification and analysis sheet.
- The report.
- Qualification standards.
- Terminology for prioritising findings.
- Wording recommendations to convey importance and urgency.
- Action plans.
Audience
The conducting an audit engagement course is for:
- auditors, controllers and inspectors;
- heads of the audit function.
Cette formation s'adresse aux profils suivants
Prerequisites
None
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
Dates and sessions
Choose the date and delivery format that suit you.
No upcoming sessions are currently available.
Last update: 23/09/2026