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Internal Audit and Risk Mitigation - Effective and practical use of the COSO and COBIT methodologies

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finance

Overview This webinar discusses how to align your audit risk assessment, audit ecosystem, audit plan, and audit engagements with the larger organization's strategy, vision, and values. It is designed mainly for internal auditors to help them understand the importance of corporate governance and enterprise risk management, identify risks to corporate strategy, critically review key business processes and objectives, perform a risk assessment, develop a risk-based assurance plan, understand entity-wide controls, and their relevance in the audit plan and then plan a risk-based engagement.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	ComplianceOnline
Live Date	1st November 2007 00:00 GMT
Format	Webcast
Topics	Finance, Legal, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Strategic Planning, IT Reliability

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