Internal Auditing Toolkit

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Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Internal Auditing Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Internal Auditing related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Internal Auditing specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Internal Auditing Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

  • Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals...


STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 990 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Internal Auditing improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 990 standard requirements:

  1. Which types of internal audit engagements will provide senior management and the board with adequate assurance and advice that significant risks have been mitigated effectively?

  2. Has the audit committee chair either previous knowledge of, or received appropriate training on, financial and risk management, accounting standards, and the regulatory regime?

  3. What types of procedures might an internal auditor use to test the design adequacy and operating effectiveness of governance, risk management, and control processes?

  4. Does the management give internal auditors and inspectors sufficient authority to make independent and technically justified decisions during the internal controls?

  5. Is inappropriate access outside predetermined parameters monitored through consistent second line assurance arrangements and also periodic internal audit coverage?

  6. Did information arise from inquiries of internal audit personnel which should be considered further in identifying risks of material misstatement due to fraud?

  7. Who will manage outreach to an external auditing organization that can provide access to an experienced auditor for either an internal or external audit role?

  8. Do internal auditors approve the producer members of the group or production sites of the multisite based on inspection reports of the internal inspectors?

  9. How can the internal audit function assist the audit committee by alerting it to instances of management override of internal controls on a timely basis?

  10. Has your entity recently undertaken compliance testing of other departments, units, offices and branches that is independent of the internal audit?


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

  • The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Internal Auditing book in PDF containing 990 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Internal Auditing self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

  • The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Internal Auditing Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Internal Auditing areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

    • Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
    • Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Internal Auditing Self-Assessment
    • Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
    • Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

 

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Internal Auditing projects with the 62 implementation resources:

  • 62 step-by-step Internal Auditing Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Internal Auditing project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Is there any form of automated support for Issues Management?

  2. Stakeholder Management Plan: Has a quality assurance plan been developed for the Internal Auditing project?

  3. Activity Duration Estimates: What distinguishes one organization from another in this area?

  4. Cost Management Plan: Have the key elements of a coherent Internal Auditing project management strategy been established?

  5. Risk Audit: Do you have position descriptions for all key paid and volunteer positions in your organization?

  6. Source Selection Criteria: What are the steps in performing a cost/tech tradeoff?

  7. WBS Dictionary: Are all elements of indirect expense identified to overhead cost budgets of Internal Auditing projections?

  8. WBS Dictionary: Are the wbs and organizational levels for application of the Internal Auditing projected overhead costs identified?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was all the key documentation given to the contracting authority?

  10. Project Scope Statement: If there is an independent oversight contractor, have they signed off on the Internal Auditing project Plan?

 
Step-by-step and complete Internal Auditing Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Internal Auditing project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Internal Auditing project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Internal Auditing project Scope Statement
  • 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
  • 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
  • 2.9 WBS Dictionary
  • 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
  • 2.11 Activity List
  • 2.12 Activity Attributes
  • 2.13 Milestone List
  • 2.14 Network Diagram
  • 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
  • 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
  • 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
  • 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
  • 2.19 Internal Auditing project Schedule
  • 2.20 Cost Management Plan
  • 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
  • 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
  • 2.23 Cost Baseline
  • 2.24 Quality Management Plan
  • 2.25 Quality Metrics
  • 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
  • 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
  • 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
  • 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
  • 2.30 Communications Management Plan
  • 2.31 Risk Management Plan
  • 2.32 Risk Register
  • 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
  • 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
  • 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
  • 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
  • 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
  • 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
  • 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:

  • 3.1 Team Member Status Report
  • 3.2 Change Request
  • 3.3 Change Log
  • 3.4 Decision Log
  • 3.5 Quality Audit
  • 3.6 Team Directory
  • 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
  • 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
  • 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
  • 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

  • 4.1 Internal Auditing project Performance Report
  • 4.2 Variance Analysis
  • 4.3 Earned Value Status
  • 4.4 Risk Audit
  • 4.5 Contractor Status Report
  • 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:

  • 5.1 Procurement Audit
  • 5.2 Contract Close-Out
  • 5.3 Internal Auditing project or Phase Close-Out
  • 5.4 Lessons Learned

 

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Internal Auditing project with this in-depth Internal Auditing Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Internal Auditing projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
  • Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
  • Integrate recent advances in Internal Auditing and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Internal Auditing investments work better.

This Internal Auditing All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.