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How to Perform an Integrated Audit
Two Day Seminar

Seminar Objective

 Most audit departments have embarked on the road of transforming their audits into Integrated Audits.  However, most Integrated Audits are comprised of joining the Operations and IT Auditors into a single audit team with no change to the type of standalone audits that were performed in the past.

This seminar will provide a detailed framework of how to perform an Integrated Audit based on identifying the business process rules and mapping them to the key IT controls needed to support the business.

Seminar Outline

I.  Introduction

• The early years of integrated audits
• Understand why organizations are not performing “real” integrated audits
• Understanding the differences between application, operations and integrated audits
• Components of Application Audits which are used in Integrated Audits

II.  How to segment the business processes into Auditable entities

III. Understanding Business Process Rules

IV. Mapping Business Process rules to detective and preventive controls

V.  Data Extracts 

• Designing extracts to understand the extent of exposure
• Evaluating data sources used to support the extracts

VI.  Performing an audit of Data Interfaces

VII. Performing an effective Security Audit within the Integrated Audit

VIII. Effective Planning techniques for Integrated Audits

IX. How to perform an effective “Integrated” Pre-Implementation Audit

X. Assessing Integrated Controls within a SAS 70 Review

XI. Implementing a Continuous Audit Monitoring Program for Integrated Audits

XII. Case Studies 

Seminar Length
Two days  (7 hour presentation time per day plus 1 hour lunch and four 10 minute breaks per day)
 

Who Should Attend
This seminar is designed for senior Financial, Operations & IT Auditors. 

Cancellation Policy
 Refer to local ISACA Chapter published Policy

Continuing Professional Education Credits

Instructor Biography

Mitchell H. Levine, CISA

Mitchell H. Levine is the founder of Audit Serve, Inc. which is an IT Audit & Systems consulting company.   For the last 19 years at Audit Serve, Mr. Levine has split his time between traditional IT & Integrated Audit Consulting projects, PCI Implementations, SOX Implementation/Testing Projects and the implementation of defect tracking, compliance and software management systems.

Over the past seven years Mr. Levine has presented over 25 seminars to nine different ISACA & IIA chapters.  Mr. Levine also was the primary writer and editor of the Audit Vision Magazine which was published from 1991 – 1998.  The magazine was transformed into the Audit Vision E-mail newsletter which is published monthly.

Prior to establishing Audit Serve, Inc. in 1990, Mr. Levine was an IT Audit Manager at Citicorp where his duties included managing a team of IT Auditors who were responsible for auditing 25+ service bureaus and the corporate financial systems.

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