About the Special Executive Masters Programme

The MSBM Special Executive Masters Programme is a short certificate training/seminar designed for anyone who would benefit from more in-depth business knowledge delivered in a short and intensive Programme. This programme is suitable for successful professionals or specialists in the private, public or non-profit making sectors that have new management responsibilities and need to expand their management knowledge quickly.

The (SEMP) Programme serves as a refresher course for those who had their Master's Degree a long time ago and need a quick reminder or as an academic update while it serves as a crash Programme for those very experienced professionals who never made time out for their masters yet they require the academic and practical relevance of this masters’ experience. It is a good Programme for individuals who are newly promoted to managerial post, the program enables them to acclimatize to the new position as well as help them intake the right decisions.

 
Objectives

After attending this course, participants would be able to:

• Understand the Audit risk management process.
• Understand the techniques for assessing governance risks.
• Analyses a proven method for analyzing governance controls.
• Key governance board risks being reviewed.
• Understand the approach to review key issues of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and reputation management.
• Meet stakeholder expectations regarding Corporate Governance (CG).
• Corporate Governance requirements and recent changes
• Find out the gaps and challenges which need to be dealt with.
• Analyze the overall maturity of the CG process.
• To learn about the areas where increased vigilance is required in auditing risk and compliance.

Who should attend?

• Lead Auditors and Senior Auditors.
• Audit Managers and those about to be appointed to that role.
• Assurance providers that need a greater understanding of Corporate Governance.
• Managers in need of a broader understanding of how to review Governance maturity.

MODULES:

Day 1: Understanding the Auditing Governance and Compliance:

• Cases of national and international auditing governance and risk compliances and success stories. 
• Discuss the key auditing Governance Requirements.
• Understand the auditing Governance Assessment Techniques.
• Analyzing and Assessing the Effectiveness of auditing Controls.
• Discuss the Key Parties within Governance for auditing and compliance.
• Analyses the Governance and Accountability Tool.
• Developing a Terms of Reference for the Assignment.
• Understand the Audit Programme.
• Assist the Audit Committee in their Corporate Governance (CG) role.
• Assess sustainability and environmental governance.
• Audit joint ventures and partnerships.
• The efficiency and ownership of the process.
• Scoping a Governance audit.
• Auditing the ERM process.
• Auditing complex areas such as the audit Committee's role in Governance.

Day 2: Understanding the key requirements for auditing and Risk Compliance:

• Understand the Role in the Preparation of the Audit.
• Understand the Scoping Governance Audit.
• Analyze the Need for a Governance Audit of the Board.
• Understand Auditing the Overall Risk Management Process.
• Learn Assessing auditing controls.
• What techniques and standards are followed in policy-making for the whole auditing process?
• Understand the role of Evaluating Risk Appetite.
• Learn about the Escalation, Delegated Authorities, Whistleblowing, and Accountabilities.
• Learn about the policies for Data Integrity.
• Auditing risk management and Compliance procedures for the auditing process.

Day 3: Understanding the Auditing Reputation and Approaches to the modern business environment:

• Learn about Auditing the Audit Committee Process.
• Understand the Auditing Reputation. 
• The Increasing Importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
• Analyze the new IIA Standard 2110 Re-auditing of Ethics.
• Understand the Sustainability and Environment Audit.
• Understand the Auditing of Joint Ventures and Partnerships.
• Reviewing a Current JV or Partnership.
• Understand the Auditing Business Continuity Planning.
• The Need to Assess the Risks.
• Determining the Key Risks and Causes in an organization.
• Understand The Audit Approach in this Sensitive Area.
• Understand How to gather the evidence?
• Analyze the Inventory of Information Requirements.
• How to Validate Information from External Sources.

Day 4: Cases in Auditing and risk Compliance for the Business Environment:

• This unit introduces and discusses a case study of auditing, risk, and compliance.

Day 5: Understand Auditing Technology Governance and Regulatory Compliance:

• Reviewing Key Controls Over Technology.
• Assessing Management Information Governance.
• Tools and techniques for auditing according to international Standards.
• Understand how Communication goes Internally and Externally.
• Ongoing Evaluations to Ascertain Whether the Components of Internal Control are Present and Functioning.
• Develop a Baseline for Effective Internal Control Processes.
• Analysis of how to have a Mix of Evaluations from Different Sources.