How to enable optimally designed controls to be implemented and achieve maximum effect for minimum cost.
Your internal control framework and individual controls are the front line in managing your risks, yet they are often misunderstood, neglected and operating inefficiently and ineffectively.
This course is focused on providing a deep understanding of controls to enable optimally designed controls to be implemented to achieve maximum effect for minimum cost.
Once we are comfortable that we have a well-designed controls framework, we need to gain assurance that our key controls are working effectively. Having a robust controls assurance function is key. The course will take you through best practice in controls assurance to allow you to benchmark your existing process or assist in building an effective and efficient function.
Course overview
In this course, you’ll learn:
1. The purpose and value of controls and controls management
The value add of controls management
Key objectives of controls and controls management
Controls as enablers
2. What are risks, treatments and controls?
Understanding objectives and critical processes
Components of risk
Introduction to the risk bow tie method
Treatment methods
3. Types of controls and control frameworks
Types of control classifications
Benefits of control classifications
Control taxonomies
What is and is not a control
Introduction to control frameworks
4. How controls modify risk
Measures of risk
Side effects of controls
How different types of controls modify risk
5. Measuring controls
Difference between effectiveness of individual controls and
Groups of controls
Key elements to determine control effectiveness
6. Control objectives
Importance of well articulated control objectives
A method to consistently articulate control objectives
Alternative control objective methodologies
7. Designing effective controls
Starting with control objectives
Factors to consider when assessing design effectiveness
8. Operating effective controls
Factors to consider when assessing operating effectiveness
9. Control assurance
Components of control assurance
Types of control tests
Sources of information about controls
Overview of sampling methods
Measuring control effectiveness
10. Controls assessment
Assessing groups of controls
Using bow ties to identify control gaps
11. Issues & actions
Types of issues identified during controls management
Considering treatment methods and cost of controls
12. Controls reporting
Reporting for controls
Providing controls assurance through reporting
Escalation, response and issues and action management
13. Control ownership and culture
Reinforcing the three lines of defence
Ownership, accountability and responsibility for controls
Building a strong control culture
Course expectations
Watch 25 videos
Answer 9 knowledge questions
Answer 10 quiz questions
4 downloadable materials
Time
4 hours of video content
Approximately 5 hours for the whole course
Support included
Lifetime access
$858.00
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