| IA Best Practices |
Based on Danny M. Goldberg's professional commentary on the Bureau of National Affairs Practice Series Internal Audit Principles and Practices (authored by legendary audit scholars Curtis C. Verschoor and Mort A. Dittenhofer), this one day seminar will take you through emerging trends and techniques in the internal audit world. Attendees should learn about real-world training and concepts they can apply in their department immediately. |
8 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| SOFT Approach to Auditing |
In these times of economic downturn and cost cutting, audit departments around the nation are looking for innovative ways to cut costs, meet obligations but also add value. How can audit departments meet all of these objectives with limited resources? The SOFT Audit is an integrated approach to internal audit which combines Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Operational, Financial and IT Auditing into one comprehensive audit approach. This one day seminar will give you an overview of how to apply this innovative approach in your audit department. |
8 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| Continuous GRC |
An overview of Continuous Governance, Risk and Compliance, which gives attendees an overview of how to apply Continuous Auditing and Monitoring techniques throughout their organization. |
8 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| Molding Tomorrow's Internal Auditors |
Can you see a significant generation gap in your new auditors? Do you find it difficult to relate to generation Y and Z? This half day course will lead you through how to effectively communicate with staff in order to maximize their effectiveness as auditors and enhance their long-term career prospects. |
4 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels, best with 5+ years auditing & accounting experience |
Soft Skills |
| Creating Value Added Work Programs |
An overview of the audit process, end to end, and how to create value-added work programs and general tools and techniques for the evolving auditor. |
4 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels, best with 5+ years auditing & accounting experience |
General |
| Audit 101 |
Hard to find good training for your new auditors? Do you have a rotational program and constantly need basic audit training for new hires or transfers into the department? Audit 101 is the perfect course to send new auditors to learn the basics of auditing. This course is an overview of the auditing field, key terminology and basic beginner steps on how to audit. New auditors should not start their new jobs without taking this course! |
8 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| Audit 201 |
Hard to find good training for your new auditors? Do you have a rotational program and constantly need basic audit training for new hires or transfers into the department? Audit 201 is the perfect course to send new auditors to learn the basics of auditing. This course is an overview of the auditing field, key terminology and basic beginner steps on how to audit. New auditors should not start their new jobs without taking this course! |
8 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels, best with 5+ years auditing & accounting experience |
General |
| Audit 301 |
As a follow-up to Audit 101 and 201, Audit 301: Becoming a Manager helps auditors becoming Management and active leaders for their audit teams. This 8 hour course gives Managers oversight on how to review a file, properly budget and forecast projects and actively manage and juggle numerous projects. Additionally, this course will give you the interpersonal skills to manage your audit team and your auditees, even your audit management. Auditors should not get promoted without taking this course. |
8 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels, best with 10+ years auditing & accounting experience |
General |
| Audit Report Writing |
Audit Reports can significantly lose their affect if not written professionally. Writing an audit report is a fine art and, once perfected, can take on more important than the audit itself. In this 8 hour course, attendees will learn, in depth, about each component of an audit report and how to set the correct tense and clarity to gain the most effectiveness. |
8 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| It’s A Wrap: Effective Audit Follow Up |
This course is designed to provide an effective methodology on follow up of audit findings and issues. This session will take you through how to finalize findings with auditees and formalization of a follow-up schedule. Additionally, this course will take you step by step through the audit follow-up, methods and extent of follow-up and concluding on audit findings. We will provide an overview of auditee personality types and the best way to accommodate each. |
4 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| Practical Stats: Statistical Sample for Auditors |
Sampling is a truly fine art: a strict science which can assist auditors in identifying and quantifying errors and issues. The course will give attendees an overview of Statistical Sampling, sampling methodologies and pitfalls inherent in analyzing results. At the completion of this course, attendees will be able to efficiently and effectively sample data to garner swift and accurate results. |
8 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels, best with 5+ years auditing & accounting experience |
General |
| Assessing Financial-Related Activities and Controls |
Dollars always flow through the financial areas of a company. Assessing the financial activities and controls is a significant procedure to decrease the fraud risk inherent in a company. Understanding the process, flows and controls in these process can define the effectiveness of an audit and your audit team. Attendees to this course will gain an overview and understanding of significant processes and controls in major financial areas and hot buttons and significant risks inherent in these processes. |
16 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| IT Auditing |
A sample course of everything that is IT Auditing, including an overview of General Computer controls, auditing security, application/business process controls, CAAT, pre/post implementation audits, etc. This is a great course to get an overview of what is IT Auditing. |
16 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
IT |
| Training the Trainer |
Struggling with internal training inside your organization? Want to maximize the effective of internally developed training programs? This half day course is designed to help you train to be a more effective trainer. |
4 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
Soft Skills |
| Effective Communication for Auditors |
Have great technical auditors that could use some help with their communication skills? Auditors who can communicate effectively are exponentially more effective than auditors who cannot. This half day course will give auditors of all levels an outline of how to optimize their communication skills. |
4 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
Soft Skills |
| Fraud Training for Auditors |
Fraud courses are great; there is an abundance of information and they are fun to sit through. On the other hand, what technical skills are you able to take away to actually apply in your day to day routine? This course is designed to assist auditors in learning basic fraud concepts and detection skills and be able to apply these learning's in their current roles. |
8 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| Optimization Auditing - An Overview of Operational Auditing for the New Ages |
With companies looking to internal audit to assist in identifying areas of improvement, auditors must be effective in operational auditing. This course will take attendees through tools and techniques on how to maximize their operational auditing effectiveness. |
8 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| SOX Optimization |
With the advent of Auditing Standard No. 5, many companies are continually looking to optimize the SOX compliance process. This day long course will help companies improve their SOX compliance process, including business processes and IT. Many of the learning's in this course are based on Danny Goldberg's numerous articles on optimizing SOX compliance. |
8 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| 10 Steps to Success: Starting an Internal Audit Department |
Starting an internal audit department from scratch is definitely a fine art. What are the initial steps and key to do's in the first 30, 90 and 180 days? How do we effectively align internal audit with the goals of the company? This one day course will give an overview of how to start an effective and efficient internal audit department. |
8 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels, best with 10+ years auditing & accounting experience |
General |
| Auditing Data Privacy |
With privacy legislation in place or pending in many industries, it is critical for organizations to review their policies and procedures regarding the collection, retention, maintenance and protection of prospect and donor information. Organizations should have a clear idea of what personal information they have in their possession and where it is housed. This 8 hour course will walk attendees through how to effectively audit data privacy and maximize audit's efforts. |
8 |
Steve Shelton |
All Levels, best with 5+ years auditing & accounting experience |
General |
| Effectively Managing Your Audit Committee |
Managing your audit committee is a fine art. Audit committee members have varying backgrounds and knowledge levels, which makes managing them unique. This one day course taught by ex-CAE's will help you maximize your communication efforts with the audit committee. |
8 |
Steve Shelton |
All Levels, best with 10+ years auditing & accounting experience |
General |
| Preparing for QAR's/Implementing a Self-Assessment Program |
How do CAE's implement effective self-assessment programs around the requirements of the quality assessment review? This one day course will teach attendees how to do this effectively, from instructors that have implemented this program at Fortune 500 companies. |
4 |
Mike Pryal |
All Levels, best with 10+ years auditing & accounting experience |
General |
| Maximizing the Audit Risk Assessment |
The audit risk assessment process is the foundation for the audit department annual plan. In today's constantly fluctuating financial markets, the audit risk assessment must become an ameba, changing with the risks of the company. This day long course will teach attendees how to maximize the audit risk assessment process. |
8 |
Steve Shelton |
All Levels, best with 5+ years auditing & accounting experience |
General |
| Soup to Nuts: The Fraud Risk Assessment Process |
The fraud risk assessment process, in most companies, is used to check the box and say it was completed. How can auditors maximize the effectiveness of the fraud risk assessment process and use it to its maximum value? This one day course will walk attendees through the end to end fraud risk assessment process and how to maximize its effectiveness. |
8 |
Steve Shelton |
All Levels, best with 5+ years auditing & accounting experience |
General |
| Best Practices: Information Technology Controls |
The fraud risk assessment process, in most companies, is used to check the box and say it was completed. How can auditors maximize the effectiveness of the fraud risk assessment process and use it to its maximum value? This one day course will walk attendees through the end to end fraud risk assessment process and how to maximize its effectiveness. |
8 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| Best Practices: Internal Control and SOX Compliance |
Training on the best practices for internal control, including streamlined SOX compliance and the latest guidance from the SEC, PCAOB, COSO and COBIT.
This timely, one-day training seminar is designed for controllers, C-level executives, finance managers, attorneys, IT professionals, CPAs, auditors and department heads. Learn how businesses can create and maintain internal control frameworks to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley or as a "Best Practice" without breaking your budget. Improve your Business by Improving your Internal Controls! |
8 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| Leveraging SOX Compliance |
Learn and create prototype documents necessary to create the basis for the assessment of ICFR by Management.
This timely, three-day workshop is designed for compliance managers, controllers, CFO’s and others who have to create the documentation to allow for the non-accelerated filer to comply with the SEC Management Guidance and Auditing Standard 5. We will walk through how to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s guidance from the SEC and PCAOB without breaking your budget. We will also focus on how to cut the cost of compliance for accelerated filers.
Under the SEC rules:
- A non-accelerated filer must provide an auditor attestation of internal controls in annual reports for fiscal years ending on or after June 15, 2010.
- A non-accelerated filer will still be required to provide management's report in annual reports, which must affirmatively state that the annual report does not include an auditor attestation. Management reports included during the period before an auditor attestation is required will continue to be deemed "furnished" rather than "filed."
The SEC rules will require that the report a non-accelerated filer files annually on its internal control systems contain the following elements:
- A statement of management's responsibilities for establishing and maintaining an adequate system.
- The identification of the framework used to evaluate the internal controls.
- A statement as to whether the internal control system is effective as of year end.
- The disclosure of any material weaknesses in the internal control system.
- A statement that the company's external auditors have issued an audit report on management's assessment of its internal controls.
This workshop will position the filer to address the above with minimum resources and confidence.
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24 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels, best with 5+ years auditing & accounting experience |
General |
| Managing Ethics |
We have built ethics courses that are approved in many states and can build a course to your needs and focus. We also focus on creating courses that are fun and involve the audience to keep the subject matter interesting and engaging. |
4 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| IFRS Conversion |
This new training, a one-day seminar is designed for CFO’s, CAO’s CAE’s, controllers, audit committee members, finance managers, CPAs, auditors and information technology managers. The seminar will provide guidance to prepare for a smooth transition to IFRS. Changing to IFRS is not a revolution but a global standardization to move from a rules-based financial reporting standard to one that is principles-based. This seminar focuses on scoping, planning for the conversion and beginning the education process on IFRS. In subsequent workshops we will address in increasingly greater detail other aspects of the conversion, with more specific guidance on issues as they become relevant to the timing of the conversion. Learn how to chart a course to IFRS without breaking your budget, and how to use the conversion to better understand your internal controls over financial reporting. |
8 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels, best with 5+ years auditing & accounting experience |
General |
| How the Recession is Changing Internal Audit |
How our current economic state is affecting the Internal Audit profession and how auditors can help cope with the current economy. |
2 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| CAE's as A/C Members: It Only Makes Sense |
Based on Mr. Goldberg and Steve Shelton's article that will appear in the December 2010 Internal Auditor, this one hour presentation walks through the pros of having a former Chief Auditor as an audit committee member and how they can add significant value in this position. |
1 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| Recession Proof Your Career |
An overview of a variety of pro-active steps auditors can take to make themselves more valuable to their companies and more viable than other candidates in the job market. |
1 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| IFRS - An Overview |
An overview of the International Financial Reporting Standards, which could come into affect for companies in the next five years. |
2 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| ERM, GRC and Internal Audit |
ERM, GRC and Internal Audit – What Enterprise Risk Management and Governance, Risk and Compliance are and how auditors fit into this equation. |
2 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| 10 Topics for Internal Audit 2010 and Beyond |
A detailed review of hot topics for auditors and current trends in the industry. |
2 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| Internal Audit Best Practices |
Based on Danny M. Goldberg's professional commentary on the Bureau of National Affairs Practice Series Internal Audit Principles and Practices (authored by legendary audit scholars Curtis C. Verschoor and Mort A. Dittenhofer), this 2 hour seminar will take you through emerging trends and techniques in the internal audit world. |
2 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| Internal Audit's Role in ERM |
What is internal audit's role in ERM? Internal auditors are taking more prominent roles in the Enterprise Risk Management process; this course will walk attendees through the role auditors should play ERM, pitfalls to watch out for and how we can assist in optimizing this process. |
2 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| Can IA be BP? |
A discussion of whether Internal Audit can be an integral part of a company’s Best Practice Process. |
2 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
General |
| IT Your SOX |
Discussion on how companies can continue to automate SOX controls to reduce internal and external time and fees spend on Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance. Based on Mr. Goldberg's December 2009 ISACA Online article. |
2 |
Danny M. Goldberg |
All Levels |
IT |
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