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Who Should Aed?
 
Audit professionals seeking fresh perspectives and advanced techniques in Middle East auditreporting including, but not limited to:
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Heads o Audit Department
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Auditing Directors
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Internal Auditors
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Auditing Managers
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Auditors
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Financial Manager
Boost your productivity bymastering innovative audit!
www.iirme.com/audit
Register Before15 June 2008For Your Chance To WinA
Nokia E90!
See back page for details
Organised by:
Ofcial Regional Recruitment PartnerOfcial IT PartnerOfcial Media Monitoring Partner
Supported by:
10 – 14 August 2008
Al Murooj Rotana Hotel,Dubai, UAE
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Attend This Best Practice Course To:
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Discover
100 ways to improve your reports
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Enhance
the impact o your reports signifcantly
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Make
your reports easier to write, easier to review and easier or management to implement
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Improve
the acceptance and implementation o your recommendations with proven techniques
Innovative Audit Reporting
10 – 11 August 2008
Attend This Advanced Course To:
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Improve
audit perormance, success and reputation by adopting the most up to date audit techniques
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Market
the internal audit service eectively
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Adopt
proven methods to automate the audit process
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Enhance
your coverage by auditing more challenging and interesting areas o the business
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Add
measurable value to your organisation by delivering world class audit services
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Enable
your organisation to combat the risk o raud
Advanced Audit Skills
12 – 14 August 2008
 
Meet Your Expert Course Director
Phil Grifths
FCA, AIIA is Founder and ManagingDirector o Business Risk Management Ltd.A Chartered Accountant, he has over 25 years’experience in internal audit, risk management andraud prevention as practitioner, proessionaladviser, consultant and trainer. He has held topmanagement positions with a number ointernational groups, in roles embracing nance, internal audit, riskmanagement, IT and general management.His areas o expertise include:• Assisting senior management to identiy, manage and then exploitthe risks within their business via acilitated business riskmanagement programmes• Helping internal audit unctions to implement world classstandards• Benchmarking internal audit and risk management – the BRM Ltd.database has inormation rom over 2000 organisations acrossthe world• Fraud prevention, detection and investigation programmestailored specically to clients requirements• Training both private and public sector organisations in all theabove disciplinesPhil is recognised as an accomplished and charismatic acilitator,trainer and lecturer having advised many renowned organisations,coordinated top-level events and addressed national andinternational conerences on a wide range o critical business topics.He has published research into many aspects o the audit and riskmanagement challenges aced by organisations, the latest being hisnew book
‘Risk Based Auditing’ 
.He has worked extensively with all sectors in the Gul during the past13 years to enable such organisations to exploit their potential bymanaging their strategic risks and/or enhancing the eectiveness otheir internal audit services.Dear Audit Proessional,Internal audit is ast becoming one o the most important businessunctions to Middle East companies. However, in order to enablethis department to be recognised as truly value-adding, its leadersmust gain resh, new perspectives on how they execute theirquintessential auditing unctions. 
Innovative Audit Reporting
brings new auditing angles to thetable by exploring alternative methods to improve your audit reports,enhance their impact and make them more acceptable, reviewableand implementable.As an essential, complementary course,
 Advanced Audit Skills
 enables you to master your auditing ability and be recognisedcompany-wide as a truly value-adding employee.Through ve interactive days, these two comprehensive,complementary courses are led by the renowned Phil Griths,lauded or previous courses as “innovative yet practical” and“amazing when discussing modern challenges”. Phil Griths,Managing Director o Business Risk Management Ltd., has builta reputation in the Gul region as an incredibly benecial courseleader who will enable you to implement international expertise inthis unique Middle East environment.Even more, copies o extensive research material and electronicmodels including a world renowned audit planning model will bemade available to you.Take the initiative now to jump-start your career and gainrecognition as a value-adding audit proessional by signing uptoday!Phil and I look orward to meeting you in August.Yours sincerely,Keith ParkerConerence Manager
P.S.Youareaskedtobringalongtwoorthreerecentauditreports.Thesearesolelyforyourownreference.P.P.SYouwillreceiveanelectronicversionofabestpracticeauditmanual!
Forthcoming Relevant Events
BC2571
Essentials Of Internal Audit 
13 – 17 April 2008 www.iirme.com/internalauditBC2587
Risk Based Audit 
4 – 8 May 2008 www.iirme.com/rbaA0922
Fraud 2008
8 – 12 June 2008 www.iimre.com/fraudconf
For more information on any of the above events please contact us onTel: 971-4-3352483 or email: info@iirme.com
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Heads o audit orum – solely or heads o internal audit orthose who have been appointed to a HOA role
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Primarily or audit managers and senior auditors with morethan 2 years experience
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For auditors with 18+months experience – the courses aredesigned primarily or senior auditors
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Suitable or those personnel in other assurance unctionsincluding compliance and health saety and environmentalauditors etc who need to build their leadership skills
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Also suitable or managers and sta rom other unctionswho need to build an understanding o the internal audit role
Tel:971-4-3352437Fax:971-4-3352438Email:register@iirme.comWeb:www.iirme.com/audit
Is this the right course or you?
 
Course Methodology
Both courses will be highly practical and interactive with exercises and case studies to enhance your understanding o the key issues includinghow to:•
Deal
with the common problems o audit reports which oten: 
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Have too many pages and unnecessarily long explanations 
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Take too long to issue and nalise 
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Have impractical recommendations 
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Do not get commitment by management•
Critically
assess your own reports•
Create
a best practice report•
Set 
your own key perormance indicators•
 Assess
your reputation•
Create
risk based audit plans•
 Automate
the audit process•
Enhance
the level o assurance you can give without the need toincrease the time on each audit•
Understand
the corporate governance challenges•
Combat 
the risk o raud•
 Audit 
the reputation o your organisation
Course Timings
Registration will commence at 08:00 on day one o each course. The courses will begin at 08:30 each day. There will be two breaks orrereshments at around 10:30 and 12:30. Lunch will ollow at close o day at 14:30.
Innovative Audit Reporting
10 – 11 August 2008
Course Outline
Internal audit reports and the reporting process should be constructive, creative and provoke change. In this age o innovation and challenge,conventional audit reports and reporting procedures may ail to arouse interest, stimulate action, or do justice to the audit perormed.
 Answerthese20questionsaboutinternalauditreportsissuedduringthelast12monthsastruthfullyandobjectivelyasyoucan.
1. Have more than 95% o audit recommendations during the last year been ully and successully implemented?2. Did your reports correlate with your organisation’s strategic and business objectives? Do your audit recommendations specically assist intheir achievement?3. Were all o your reports less than six pages?4. I you were the recipient would they have spurred you into immediate action?5. Did all the reports take less than two weeks to nalise?6. Were all o your ndings or recommendations dierent rom the last time an audit o the same area was carried out?7. Was the cost o completing the audit shown on the ace o the report?8. Did the reports include photographs and graphics?9. Were they issued electronically?10. Were there any surprises?11. Did the reports ocus on the uture rather than the past?12. Did the management comments indicate real commitment rather than simply a way or theclient to close the audit process and get on to something else?13. Was the audit opinion a true refection o the overall conclusions? Did the key recipientaccept this audit opinion as valid?14. Did the ndings, conclusions and recommendations really represent the key issues?15. Did you only report on the major issues ound during the audit with the minor issues beingdealt with separately?16. Were all the recommendations 100% practicable?17. Were all the audits conducted ully recognised by the organisation as helpul and relatingto key business risks or opportunities?18. Were the reports a true refection o the expertise, knowledge and proessionalism thatwent into the audits?19. Have you changed the report ormat signicantly within the past two years?20. Do you believe that your reports are as good as they could be?I you cannot answer ‘Yes’ to more than 15 o the questions it is unlikely that your audit reportswill meet the needs o your organisation. I you scored 10 or less you are probably being moreobjective than those who scored themselves 15 or more (And you will represent very much thenormal organisation as ar as audit reports go!)
Tel:971-4-3352437Fax:971-4-3352438Email:register@iirme.comWeb:www.iirme.com/audit
“The event was just great!” 
Faleh Al Anjani,
Auditor
Sabic,
KSA
“The Middle East is catching up inwith the skills, theories and conceptsdiscussed.” 
Sohel Merchant,
Assistant Manager,Management Assurance
 WJ Towell & Co (LLC),
Oman
“It was a very valuable event, and I really learnt a great amount from it.” 
Gamil Zaki,
Internal Audit Ocer
EFG Hemes Holding Co,
Egypt
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