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Agenda

Agenda-at-a-Glance

Wednesday, May 15

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Session A Introduction and Welcome - The New Frontiers of Internal Audit Excellence
Joel F. Kramer, CPA, Managing Director, Internal Audit Division, MIS Training Institute

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Refreshments

10:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Session B Meeting Increased Stakeholder Demands in 2013
• Recognizing auditable risks that could cause the most damage to your organization and incorporating them into your plan
• Ensuring exposures are within the organization's risk tolerance
• Balancing assurance and operational audits with consulting opportunities
• Excluding low-impact, low-probability audits
• Addressing strategic as well as transactional risks
• Staffing your department with top talent
• Completing more audits and tackling more risk without a comparable increase in resources
• Building a process that identifies emerging risk
• Maximizing technology

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM Luncheon

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Luncheon Address: Partnering with Corporate Compliance
Dennis Kinzig, CFSA, CISA, CFE, Chief Risk Officer, Amerigroup Corporation

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Session C Creatively Finding New, "A-Level" Talent
• Using insourcers, co-sourcers and outsourcers to address risks
• Balancing rotational versus career auditors
• Changing the dynamics of the audit manager/director's responsibilities
• Having a controlled turnover ratio
• Minimizing the probability of a bad hire

SESSION D Becoming a Truly Risk-Based Internal Audit Department
• Staying abreast of enterprise-wide risks
• Knowing the business
• Gaining respect throughout the organization, including the C-suite
• Putting together the best possible team
• Being evaluated with risk-based metrics
• Keeping pace with new legislation

3:15 PM - 3:30 PM Refreshments

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
SESSION E Creating a Comprehensive Anti-Fraud Strategy
• Conducting a fraud risk assessment
• Incorporating fraud into the audit planning process
• Being compliant with the FCPA and UK Bribery Acts
• Having the core competencies to recognize and address the red flags of fraud
• Building a fraud response process

Thursday, May 16

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
Breakfast Address: Integrated Data Analytics: The New Standard for Internal Audit Departments
John Verver, Vice President of Product Strategy and Alliance, ACL

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
SESSION F Incorporating Data Analytics into Your Audit Process
• Using data analytics in the planning process
• Data analytics as a tool for identifying emerging and changing risks
• The role of data analytics in fieldwork
• Maximizing the use of subject-matter experts in the process
• Utilizing data analytics to uncover fraud
• Ensuring staff is up to speed on interpreting and analyzing data

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Refreshments

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
SESSION G Small Audit Departments: How to Operate Smartly with Less
 • Ten big things small audit departments do wrong
• Using fewer resources smarter to keep abreast of changing risks
• How to juggle the same responsibilities as larger departments with fewer resources
• Strategies for expansion: when it pays to specialize, outsource, co-source or insource
• Stretching the small budget

SESSION H Integrated Auditing: Succeeding at IA's Ongoing Challenge
• Including fraud in your integration strategy
• Adopting a different management style
• Should IT auditors do financial/compliance audits?
• Determining if the whole staff should be integrated auditors
• Problems and solutions of managing integrated audits
• Assessing how much IT financial/operational auditors need to know

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM Lunch on Your Own

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
SESSION I The Greatest Challenges Facing IT Audit in 2013
Thierry Dessange, Director, IT Audit, Safeway, Inc.

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Refreshments

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
SESSION J Rethinking the Traditional Audit Process
• Doing more with less
• Increasing managerial involvement in planning
• Testing earlier in the planning process
• Auditing ONLY key controls
• Eliminating administrative burdens that don't add value

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
SESSION K Industry Breakout: Risks, Strategies and Opportunities
Take advantage of this unique chance to learn what your colleagues are doing to assess risks and identify key controls in their industries.

6:00 PM - 7:15 PM Networking Reception

Friday, May 17

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
SESSION L Maintaining a Great Relationship with the Audit Committee and Executive Management
• Becoming a valued counselor to the Audit Committee
• Effectively communicating emerging risks
• Good ways to deliver bad news
• Differentiating involvement from micromanagement
• When it's appropriate to "go against the grain"

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Refreshments

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
SESSION M Best Practices in Internal Auditing
• Hiring and keeping the best people
• Combining best practices and emerging trends
• Balancing consulting and independence
• 200 examples of best practices
• Taking a proactive role in combating fraud
• Redefining best practices as stakeholders' needs change
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