This three-day seminar is designed for auditors who need to understand and identify the significant emerging risks that strategic initiatives bring to the organization. You will learn the key risks and known points of failure in the most prevalent strategic initiatives undertaken by organizations, including outsourcing, mergers and acquisitions, and new systems design and acquisitions. You will also investigate risks in claiming a presence on the Internet and in such new technologies as cloud computing. You will discover how to audit to these key risks and how to ensure that they have been properly addressed throughout your strategic undertaking. You will cover key audit strategies that must be employed to assure that your efforts yield the maximum return on the audit investment to your organization. You will leave this high-impact seminar with an inventory of all of the key risks in these super critical areas and with an audit strategy for each one. 

Prerequisite: Using Risk Assessment to Build Individual Audit Programs (OAR321) or equivalent experience

Advance Preparation: None      Learning Level: Intermediate

Field: Auditing             Delivery Method: Group Live