# Skills for Leading and Managing Audit Projects Course (Self-Paced)

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## Overview

Acquire the knowledge and skills you need to be an outstanding leader, one who can influence audit teams to boost productivity and achieve positive results. Learn concepts and techniques for managing audit projects from proposal through reporting and for making the best use of your valuable time. Learn how to communicate with responsible officials and the media; how to evaluate, coach, and motivate team members; and how to manage conflict. Upon completion of this course, you will possess the leadership and management skills to ensure that your staff produce quality products that meet user needs and do so on time and within budget. The instructors for this course have been senior audit executives responsible for leading and managing multiple audits and for managing an audit office or division.

## What you'll learn

- Comprehend the behavioral changes and new skills critical to successfully transition to a leadership role.
- Plan, direct, and manage the audit assignments from proposal to reporting.
- Motivate staff to complete assignments successfully.
- Evaluate and select staff for audit assignments, and know how to manage and communicate effectively with them.
- Communicate professionally and effectively with auditees, other government officials, and the media.
- Better manage your scarce and valuable time by determining which specific audits or audit tasks have priority.
- Apply leadership concepts and various techniques that can be used to successfully plan, manage, and communicate audit assignments.

## Curriculum

#### Module 1: Overview of Audit Mandates and Responsibilities

- Overall Purpose of Performance Audits
- Peter Drucker’s Definitions
- What is Integrity?
- Responsibilities of Auditors and Audit Organizations
- Key Legislative Audit Mandates
- The Universal Functions of Management
- Distinction Between Control and Controls
- OMB Definition of Management’s Responsibility for Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Control
- Customers and Stakeholders

#### Module 2: Your Responsibilities and Challenges as a Senior Supervisor

- Role of Senior Supervisor Defined
- Supervising Audit Teams: Your Role, Attitudes, and Skills
- Your New Role
- Your New Attitudes
- Your New Skills

#### Module 3: Senior Supervisor’s Role in the Proposal and Survey Phases

- Proposal Phase
- Survey Phase
- Go, No Go Decision
- Suggested Strategy for Detailed Audit

#### Module 4: Senior Supervisor’s Role in the Planning Phase

- Defining the Audit Objectives
- Setting Milestones
- Determining Staff Needs for Field Work and Reporting
- Documenting the Audit Plan

#### Module 5: Senior Supervisor’s Role in the Field Work Phase

- Conducting the Field Work
- Your Field Work Audit Responsibilities
- Performance Appraisal Tips

#### Module 6: Senior Supervisor’s Role in the Reporting Phase

- Key Tasks in the Reporting Phase
- Using a Report Conference to Reach Agreements
- Processes for Preparing the Audit Report
- Preparing the Draft Audit Report
- Reviewing the Completed Report Draft for Quality

#### Module 7: Senior Supervisor’s Communication Responsibilities

- Communication is Critical
- Listening Skills
- Nonverbal Communications
- Communications with Customers and Auditees
- Communications with the Media

#### Module 8: Time Management

- Time – An Irretrievable Asset
- Time Management Tools
- Just Where Should You Spend Your Time?

#### Module 9: Becoming a Stronger Leader

- Leadership and Management Tenets
- Delegation – The Secret to Leadership
- The Test of a Leader
- Common Sense

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $1199