Happy New Year! Welcome to 2017. I hope everyone enjoyed a joyous holiday season!
In case you missed it, here are links to some supplemental guidance items released in the last half of 2016:
Audit Reports: Communicating Assurance Engagement Results. This new guidance sup-ports practitioners in writing reports that resonate with stakeholders and effectively com-municate key messages in a timely manner.
GTAG: Assessing Cybersecurity Risk: Roles of the 3 Lines of Defense was designed to help internal auditors develop competence in providing assurance over cybersecurity risks.
GTAG: Auditing Smart Devices: An Internal Auditor’s guide to understanding and Auditing Smart Devices helps internal auditors to identifying the risk landscape and assuring that adequate controls and governance are in place.
Also note that the 26 practitioner reports from the 2015 CBOK study are now available in one click: CBOK Report.
Haven’t checked out On Demand yet? It’s the IIA’s new online learning offering. There are doz-ens of web-based internal audit courses focused on existing, trending and cutting-edge topics. Reasons to check it out: 1) convenient 2) cost-effective 3) interactive, user friendly design 4) designed for multiple levels of expertise 5) CPE credits provided.
Top 5 rated courses: 1) CAATs, Data Mining & Other IA Activities 2) Ethics for Internal Auditors 3) Lean Six Sigma Overview for IA 4) Risk Management 5) The Standards of IA.
All the best to everyone in 2017, Your IIA-SK Board
Upcoming Member Programs, Events & Luncheons — Register Online!
Here’s what on the calendar to the end of the chapter’s year-end. Stay tuned for more dates and details of the events: January—CAE Roundtable Jan 24 February—Luncheon February/March—Investigation Courses
Fundamentals of Effective Fact Finding Feb 27
Investigative Interviewing Feb 28
How to use the internet as an investigative tool: Part 1 The World Beyond Social Media Mar 1
How to use the internet as an investigative tool: Part 2 Social Media Mar 2
How to prepare for the hearing, adjudication or trial Mar 3 March—Social Event April—Course May– AGM, CAE Roundtable
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JANUARY 2017 EMAIL: [email protected]
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IIA-SK provides an opportunity for employers to post career opportunities on our website. We also email the posting to all members in the province. Cur-rent posting:
Audit Manager, SGI (Regina) closes: Jan 8
To submit a job posting, view current postings or for additional information, please visit our Career page.
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This month’s free webinars:
Develop your creative auditing side Jan 10
Analytics and IA: Global market insights into the rising use of big data Jan 17
Conducting an audit of your SharePoint or O365 environ-ment Jan 24
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