[Executive Education, Inc. - Seminars for Corporate Financial Managers & Management Advisory Services]

Full Day Seminar

Operational Analysis

Discovering Ways to Create a More Profitable Company

Discover ways to make your company more profitable! This fast-paced, interactive seminar will teach you how to use operational auditing techniques to identify and implement cost saving operating controls and processes.

Based on the principles of COSO’s Internal Control Framework and standards of the Institute of Internal Auditors, this course will make the experienced financial manager and the professional operational auditor more efficient and value-added in their respective fields.

Participant Feedback

Very insightful and useful seminar. —Raleigh, NC

Topics Discussed Include:

  • Financial manager’s role in operational reviews
  • Relationship between risk, control and profitability
  • COSO’s Internal Control Framework
  • Hints on working with the audit committee, internal auditors and external auditors
  • Keys to integrating an operational analysis program into your routine finance function
  • Linkage with the 9 step traditional operational auditing process
  • Insight into control self assessment, story-boarding and the use of polling software
  • Using SOX 404 as a foundation
  • Transition into an Enterprise Risk Management process

Cases and Group Discussion

The seminar includes three case studies including of a municipal operational audit project that went wrong.

Additional Information

Target Audience: Controllers, cost accountants, internal auditors and other corporate financial managers

Level of Knowledge: Intermediate

CPE Credit: 8 hours group live

Area of Study:
      Traditional: A&A
      NASBA: Auditing

Prerequisite: None

Adv. Preparation: None

Author: Bill O’Brien

Acronym: OA

Scheduling: Schedule with one of our other full-day seminars such as The Coming IFRS Conversion to make a 2-day series