Turn Digital Risks into Audit Confidence – Master Application Controls Today!

Overview

Why This Course Is Essential

Digital transformation has revolutionized business operations, streamlining processes and boosting efficiency. But with automation comes new risks that organizations must manage to stay in control.  Audit is at the forefront, ensuring stakeholders have a complete view of operational and technology-related risks.

Target Audience

This training requires a basic knowledge of IT and audit skills.

Course Objectives

This course equips you to integrate IT and digital risks seamlessly into operational audits. You’ll learn how technology influences business processes and gain practical techniques to identify and assess these risks effectively.

Through real-world examples and an in-depth case study, you’ll master a risk-based approach to combined audits—covering both business processes and application systems. You’ll also uncover proven strategies to mitigate digital risks and strengthen organizational resilience.

By the end of the training, you’ll have the tools, techniques, and confidence to perform integrated audits aligned with the latest industry insights.

Course Content

• Application Systems and operational audit definition, contents, scoping
• Operational process management & documentation
• Mastering the operational audit process
• Identifying the types of automation in the business processes
• Performing the integrated audit scoping, risk assessment and assignment (work programme evaluation and testing)
• ITGCs (a short summary)
• Application controls extended (in the Preparation, Input, Process and Output phases of a business process) – also in ERP systems and UDAs EUC).
• Assessing mitigating application controls in the operational process audit
• References documents – ready to use