This course also serves as an excellent refresher course for participants who want to enhance their healthcare and safety audit skills.

Content:

Review of Key Audit Function Foundations

• Review of key action points
• Developing organizational specific risk matrices
• Global best practice – case studies and analysis
• Key action points – Delegate action plan development

Risk based auditing.

• Identifying areas of risk
• Classifying and quantifying risk areas
• Developing audit and re-audit frequency in line with risk
• Overview of emerging threats

Conducting effective audits

• The role of the auditor as consultant
• Utilizing audit reporting to inform organizational policy development.
• Continuous improvement initiatives
• Measuring improvement – toolkit to objectively measure and demonstrate audit output improvements.

Financial crime compliance

• Record keeping procedures.
• Controls to identify potentially suspicious activities.
• Trade finance transactions
• Trade processing controls by processing staff
• Red flagging procedures
• Pre-determined thresholds systems and controls
• Actions taken by senior management.
• Evidence and awareness of senior management evidencing how crime risks evolve in organizational type of business.

Engaging with the audit structure

• Making effective recommendations and business cases
• Presenting information effectively – combining written skills and personal presentation skills
• Contribution to the development of the long-term audit strategy
• Raising the profile of internal audit within the organization

For Whom:

Relevant Healthcare Practitioners

Training Methodology

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.