I have worked with many clients to develop a lean and agile audit methodology and up-date their audit manual.
In response to requests, I have summarised the key good practices into one manual, aligned to the IIA IPPF 2017 framework.
Key lean/agile principles are outlined:
The lean and agile internal audit methodology toolkit is written for immediate use by any internal audit team covering:
- Assignment planning
- Assignment execution
- Assignment reporting
- Follow-up and feedback
The document comprises 80+ slides explaining good practice in a granular/modular way:
The methodology toolkit also contains templates, advise on ratings, dealing with sensitive issues and how to manage advisory assignments.
It can either be used to benchmark an existing audit methodology for lean/agile ways of working or it can be used as the starting point for a new audit team that needs to write an audit manual.
The toolkit costs £500+VAT but will save those who use it many days of effort. For more information contact info@RiskAI.co.uk
I contacted [James] for advice as to how Assurance Mapping techniques could be applied in my own authority. Not only were his ideas very constructive, his approach was very professional yet carried out in a friendly, easy going manner which greatly helped my understanding of the issues involved. James was then always happy to deal with any follow up queries I had and he helped to fine tune and discuss the approach with the rest of my team who similarly very quickly formed the same positive view of James’s style and manner. We have recently introduced this new approach into my authority and the results and comments to date have been very encouraging, thanks in no small way to James’s advice and assistance. I would have no hesitation recommending James to anyone.
James has helped me and my team in a number of areas, examples being improving the way we conduct and report on our audits and helping with our assurance mapping. This has all been done in a positive and supportive manner, helping the team to embed learning from these sessions.