Powell Dorian

Training

POWELLDORIAN provides a variety of training sessions geared specifically to internal auditors, risk managers, and those with governance related responsibilities. We work directly with our clients to tailor programs that are specific to their own unique needs. We also offer a number of ‘off-the-shelf’ programs such as:

  • Basic Internal Auditing Skills – this 2 day program provides participants with the basic tools to be an effective internal auditor. Working through a case study, the course starts with overall audit planning and finishes with a written audit report.
  • Advanced Report Writing Skills – this ½ day workshop is designed to assist auditors in writing reports to best effect. Topics covered include writing for your reader, writing style and grammar.
  • Presentation Skills – this 2 hour hands-on workshop covers how to be a better presenter and deliver a message to best effect. Topics include proper preparation, use of different media, and how different presentation styles will impact the message.
  • Interviewing & Influencing Skills – this ½ day hands-on workshop covers methodologies on how to conduct more focused interviews and how to extract information from a difficult interviewee. The workshop includes role play exercises to practice interviewing techniques.
  • Facilitation Skills – this 2 hour hands-on workshop is designed to help give participants some ideas on how to use workshop facilitation to identify risk and control issues. The workshop includes a number of role play exercises where participants will facilitate “mock” workshops on selected topics.
  • The Softer Side of Internal Controls – this ½ day program focuses on the difference between hard and soft controls, the importance of soft controls and the role they play in an organization. It also provides an overview of the different control frameworks (primarily COSO and CoCo) and covers how to evaluate soft controls using different tools and techniques. There is a participant-focused case study as part of the program. By the end of the session, a series of control evaluation questions is developed by the participants.
  • Risk Management – this 1 day program teaches participants how risk fits into an organization’s strategic framework, how to identify risks within their own organizations and what tools can be used to manage and/or mitigate those risks. It is targeted specifically for individuals with responsibility in risk management and is designed as a ‘how-to’ workshop providing participants with the tools and techniques to start implementing risk management within their own organizations.
  • Developing a Risk-Based Audit Plan – this ½ day workshop geared for newer CAE’s which looks at identifying the audit universe, developing a one year plan and developing the long range audit plan.
  • Improving Audit Processes – this 1 day program geared towards smaller audit shops that looks at how to develop risk based audit programs as well as working towards quality assurance (how to deal with independence, improving processes and communication, how to add value and avoid redundancies).
  • Operational Auditing – this 1 day program that examines how internal audit ties into management’s objectives, understanding the difference between control and business objectives, understanding the components of a business unit, understanding operational control frameworks and operational auditing tools and techniques (VFM, CSA).
  • Internal Audit’s Role in Detecting Fraud – this basic introductory ½ day session looks at what internal audit’s responsibility for detecting fraud is, understanding the key indicators of fraud, and determining how internal audit should go about designing audit tests that include a fraud detection components
  • Corporate Governance and the Internal Audit Function - this 1 day workshop aims to develop and enhance the internal auditor’s understanding of corporate governance and how it can be evaluated. It provides participants with the knowledge and skills they need to understand the role and responsibilities of internal audit in the context of corporate governance and their responsibilities to the board and/or audit committee.
  • Professional Standards Update – this 2 hour session is geared to provide an overview of the new International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF).

In partnership with MDA Training, we are also able to offer training in areas such as corporate finance, financial reporting and International Financial Reporting Standards. Please visit MDA Training's website for more information.

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Scott Powell, MPHIL.,ACA,CCSA
Vice President, Education and Training

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