Auditor to Analyst: Beginners Course

Data analytics foundations for internal auditors of the future.

Organisations are increasingly turning to digital tools, including data analytics and artificial intelligence, to support them to identify risks and provide assurance across growing and complex auditable areas.

The IIA-Australia is proud to partner with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), to provide internal audit professionals with hands-on experience using data analytics in real internal audit scenarios. The course will increase their digital literacy and introduce them to a range of widely used and available analytics tools to test, interpret data and validate results.

Participants will learn how to digitise and even automate some of their manual work, to reveal richer insights and create more capacity for judgement-based activities, delivering improved assurance outcomes.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the training course, participants will be able to: 

• Understand audit analytics practices and how to apply an "analytics mindset" within an audit.
• Work across all phases of an audit in conformance to best practice audit analytics methodology.
• Analyse data sets with appropriate tools.
• Understand underlying concepts of data analytics tools and technologies.
• Assess the suitability and veracity of different data sources for audit analytics.
• Understand the various analytical tools and techniques on audits such as SQL Server, Python, Alteryx, Tableau, etc.
• Interpret results and extract insights from the analysis.

Level: Beginners
CPE: 10
Delivery Method:  Online Self-paced Learning