CFO Series: Aren't We All Auditors All the Time?

Overview

Audits involve testing, review, examination, and verification. However on another level - we audit procedures, reports at work, who fulfilled commitments, systems, other people's driving skills, deliveries, etc. We all audit everything all the time and that is wonderful. Auditing skills are valuable and necessary for our professional success and personal happiness. Every professional will audit what they encounter, including us. In this course, we will illustrate how continuous auditing skills are valuable, all the time. Whether you are an auditor or not, our role as a business leader IS to audit continuously! Better leaders have these audit skills.

Prerequisites

At least six (6) months of professional financial statement analysis experience.

Objectives

• Analyze your role in your organization.
• Apply your auditing skills to your professional and personal life.
• Evaluate communication strategies to solve organizational problems.

Highlights

• Recognizing the need to think before we react.
• How to Look and listen effectively.
• Evaluating using multiple different criteria.
• Communication strategies.
• Problem solving, not just problem identification.
• Critical thinking.
• Being skeptical without being cynical.
• Unconventional keys to success.
• The never-ending need to audit continuously.