An Intensive 5-day Training Course
Risk Management: Internal Control and Fraud Prevention
The Keys to Success in our Fast-Changing World
Course Introduction
In the ever-changing business environment, encountering risks is inevitable. The ability to manage these increasingly significant risks now represents the difference between a thriving organisation and one that is struggling to deal with the challenges facing it.
To deal with these challenges requires extensive knowledge of risk management, effective internal control and proactive fraud prevention techniques. This is exactly what you will find in this course.
This training Course will enable you to develop and deliver a systematic plan to strengthen your risk management, fraud prevention and internal control environment.
This Oxford Management Centre training Course will highlight:
- The power of an integrated approach to risk management and internal control
- A proven approach to grab management's attention regarding risk and control
- A simple method to reduce unnecessary controls
- How to develop an effective fraud prevention strategy?
Objectives
After completing this training course you will be able to:
- Ensure your organisation has an effective balance between risk and internal control
- Explain to management the benefits of an enterprise-wide approach to risk and internal control
- Apply the different techniques for identifying and managing risks
- Ensure that preventative, detective and corrective controls are in place
- Link risk management and internal control into the business planning process
- Implement an effective fraud prevention process
- Promote a culture of integrity and ethics across the organisation
Training Methodology
- This is a basic/intermediate level course and delegates are not required to have any previous experience in risk management or fraud prevention to attend
- Delegates should have a good educational standard and/or a professional qualification
- No advance preparation is required
- Delivery method- Group-live (with exercises and role-plays to stimulate audit scenarios and situations that assurance professionals will encounter)
- A short examination will be given at the end of the course
Organisational Impact
This course will benefit organisations in all business sectors. It will provide the basis for implementing an integrated risk management, internal control and fraud prevention infrastructure. The financial and operational benefits will be significant.
The training course will enable organisational knowledge to be enhanced in the following areas:
- Enhancing the current risk management process
- Developing a more effective approach to deal with emerging events
- Structuring the internal control process to focus on both business and fraud risks
- Building a better appreciation of critical internal controls
- Identification and simplification of overlapping processes
- Developing a structured fraud prevention strategy
Personal Impact
The training course will enable delegates to enhance their personal knowledge in the following disciplines:
- Simplification of complex processes
- Learning why internal controls will not always protect you
- Internationally recognised risk management strategies
- Delivering enhanced benefits by linking risk, control and fraud prevention into one seamless process
Who Should Attend?
This Oxford course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Risk Managers
- Business Managers in line functions
- Audit Managers and other auditors
- Quality Assurance Professionals
- Managing needing a broader understanding a risk and internal control
Course Outline
Day One
The Power of Effective Risk Management
- The Importance of Managing Risks Efficiently and Effectively
- The Need to Embed the Risk Management Process
- The Key Link between Risk and Objectives
- Risk Measurement Techniques
- Selling the Benefits
- Ensuring an Effective Balance between Risk and Control
- ISO 31000 Risk Standard
- Risk Appetite – the least well understood aspect of risk?
Day Two
Effectively Managing the Risk Process
- Risk Mitigation Processes
- The Risk Register – and How to Simplify them and Optimise their Value
- Identification of Risk Exposures – the 4 T’s
- Developing Action Plans and Improvement Opportunities
- Dealing with Over-Managed Risks
- Linking the output into the Business Planning Process
- Reputation Risk Management
- Engaging Stakeholders in the Process
Day Three
The Internal Control Environment
- The Need to see Internal Control as a Positive Process
- The Pressure on Internal Controls due to leaner Business Structures
- The COSO Internal Control Integrated Framework
- The 3 Types of Control – Preventative, Detective and Corrective
- How to get Senior Management to take Internal Control seriously
- Compliance with Procedures and Policies
- The Constantly Changing Regulatory Requirements
Day Four
The Key Pressures on the Internal Control Processes
- The Changing World Economy and the Impact on Controls
- The Ongoing Evaluation of the Control Environment
- Information Security
- Controls over Technology
- Systems Development and the Risk to Internal Controls
- Internal and External Communications – and the Control Impact
- The Need for Internal Control Procedures be kept up to date
Day Five
Proactive Fraud Prevention
- Why Internal Controls may not Protect you against Fraud
- How to Implement a Best Practice Fraud Prevention Process
- Evaluating the Fraud Risks
- Developing a Fraud Consciousness Loop
- The Anti-Fraud Policy
- Recognising the Patterns of Fraudulent Behaviour
- Promoting Integrity and Ethics across the Organisation
Certificate
Oxford Management Centre Certificate will be provided to delegates who successfully completed the training course.
Accreditation
In association with
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Yes, Oxford Management Centre is accredited by the following professional bodies;
National Association of State Board of Accountancy (NASBA)
The Oxford Management Centre is registered with NASBA as a sponsor of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. NASBA have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit.
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The classroom training fees include course presentation, relevant materials, physical & digital documentation, lunch and refreshments served during entire training. Accommodation and transportation are not included in the training course fees.
While, online training fees cover the course presentation and digital documentation and relevant materials.
The Oxford Management Centre Certificate of Completion with corresponding CPE credits shall be awarded to delegates who has successfully completed the training course.
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Note: If the payment is not received, Oxford Management Centre has the right to refuse admission.
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- Registration Confirmation
- Invoice/Receipt (where appropriate)
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