IIA, 8th National Conference to be conducted by Sri Lankan Chapter on March 12

The Institute of Internal Auditors, Sri Lankan chapter will be conducting their 8th national conference on the 12th of March 2018 at Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo.

The conference will be conducted with the notion of “being agile in a transformative age” for an improved tomorrow.

The Conference will be focusing on 4 main areas; Learning to think like a CEO, managing expectations, Auditing in Disruptive age and Creating an Anti-Fraud Culture.

Key Focus – “Learn to think like a CEO”

1. Mastering the essence of

business thinking of a CEO 2. Understanding the strategic mission of the organization and perspectives of the CEO and board to provide proactive, complete, integrated picture of the risk management strategy. 3. Replacing mundane operational and compliance issues with insights and advices that matters in accomplishing the strategic mission.

4. Information distillation and using the language of the business to communicate audit findings.

Key Focus – “Managing Expectations”

1. Agility – the new norm 2. Respond swiftly to changing priorities and emerging risks

3. Risk based audits combined with timely impactful reporting

4. Maintaining independence through “seemingly” conflicting activities 5. Enterprise Risk

Management

6. System implementations 7. Policy and procedure devel

opment

8. Investigations

Key Focus – “Auditing in Disruptive Age”

1. Examine whether the right technology vision for internal audit and risk management is set in today’s digital environment

2. Explore whether internal audit and risk management processes are sufficiently automated and agile to address the present and the future of internal audit in the current transformative age.

3. Identify potential challenges to more successful Data Analytic efforts and discuss ways to overcome these challenges

4. Explore areas of application for RPA in internal auditing.

Key Focus – “Creating an Anti- Fraud Culture”

1. How economic pressure will create frauds in an organisation and the system around the organisation

2. Conduct of a fraud risk

assessment

3. Creation of an anti-fraud

culture

4. Internal auditor’s role in creating anti-fraud culture Key Speakers from a variety of industries such as FMCG, Banking, Health care & IT along with Internal audit professionals will be featuring in the above-mentioned sessions.

Fees;

IIA Members: Rs. 11,500.00 Non-Members: Rs. 13,000.00

Registrations details Please Contact Ms. Dilshini Ramanayake – 0771944015 (iialankachapter@gmail.com)