INTRODUCTION:  
The workshop will highlight current trends and practices in corporate internal auditing. Issues to be discussed include:

• The wider scope of roles and responsibilities of modern internal auditor.
• Audit Planning Methods.
• Systems documentation review and upgrading.
• How to write an effective audit report.
• How an Internal Auditor should relate to managers in other departments as well as external Auditors.
• Financial Investigations.
• The vexed issue of corporate fraud: Types, Causes, Detention and Management.
• The Internal Auditor.
• Challenges of the future.

CONTENTS:

*    Relationship of the internal audit department and auditors
*    Relationship between internal auditor and external auditors
*    Peculiarities of Public account committee, the alarm system, and the auditor      
*    The audit committee and internal auditor
*    Internal auditing as a cost control tool
*    Independence of the internal auditor

• Principles governing an audit; objectivity, independence, confidentiality etc.    
• Assessment of existing controls and inherent risks
• Preparation of the audit program
• Audit working papers; audit manuals program documents etc
• Adequate staffing for the audit functions
• The audit supervision train

• Definition of internal control system
• Internal control system and procedures
• System documentation process
• System review methods; to detect loop holes in the internal control process and to plug identified loopholes
• System upgrade; to cover anticipated areas of deficiencies
• Emerging trends and challenges

WORKSHOP METHOD:
Formal lectures, Group discussions and Case study.

WORKSHOP VENUE:           
Nisrel Training and Conference Center,
Elephant Cement House,
(5th floor, B Wing) Alausa, Ikeja- Lagos.

DATE: 22-24th of June & 19-21 October  2009
                       
FEES: The workshop fee is N55, 500.00 (Forty Five Thousand Five Hundred Naira) only, per participant to cover workshop literature and materials, Executive Bag, Tea/Coffee, Lunch, Photographs, Certificates. Payment may be in cash or Bank draft. Payment may be made before the workshop date or at the venue of the workshop.

DISCOUNTS:
3-5 Participants   5%
Above 5-participants    10%

MODE OF PAYMENTS:
Payments in cash or bank draft should be made to the “Ikeja District Society of ICAN “ and sent to: 
   
The Chairman,
Ikeja District Society,
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria,
4, Araromi Street Aniforwose,
P.O BOX 13392, Ikeja.
Tel: 01-8143025 , 01-7943921,07090058765
For In-house training arrangements, please call Francis on 08035062583; 08075486693