Our webinars and other resources
This webinar and other resources section includes our free webinars for internal auditors
Webinars
ACCA UK's Internal Audit Network regularly runs free webinars for its members working in internal audit. Recent series covered cyber security, de-mystifying IT audit, GDPR, blockchain & cryptocurrencies, and future trends in Internal Audit. The fist webinar of the 2020 programme will take place on 16 April on the topic of Internal Audit and technology.
Register to attend upcoming webinars or to listen to past webinars on demand.
Resources by theme
This resource brings together webinars and articles from the past few years under the key themes of ethics, audit management, IT and legislation/regulation.
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Ethics
Culture
- Can Internal Audit really be independent? (2019 webinar)
- Auditing culture (2019 article)
- Auditing employment (2019 article)
- Corporate governance theatre: risk culture, plausible deniability and wilful blindness (2018 article)
- Assessing risk culture (2018 article)
- Auditing culture in the fourth sector (2018 article)
- How to audit culture - a case study by Barclays (2017 webinar)
- Auditing culture - a case study by Barclays Bank (2017 article)
- Auditing culture: setting the scene (2015 webinar)
- Auditing Culture: a proposed approach (2015 webinar)
- Auditing culture: culture and behaviours (2015 webinar)
- Frauditing for internal auditors (2015 article)
- Auditing culture: question and answer session (2015 webinar)
- The driver and the racing car (2015 article)
Other areas
- Internal Audit's role in whistleblowing (2019 article)
- It's the people thing (2019 article)
- Internal Audit's important role in combating modern slavery (2018 article)
- Criminal Finances Act - minimising the risk of tax evasion (2018 article)
- The ethical challenges to your moral compass (2017 article)
- When should an internal auditor blow the whistle (2017 article)
- I don't need this pressure (2017 article)
- The Bribery Act 2010 - five years on (2016 article)
- Bribery, corruption and slavery - assessing the risks (2016 article)
- Bridging the gap between human rights and business (2016 article)
- The normalisation of corruption (2016 article)
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Audit management
Soft skills
- Stakeholder engagement and management (2020 article)
- Effective communications - conversations with NEDs (2020 article)
- Difficult auditees and auditors (2017 article)
- Presenting a report to achieve the best outcome (2017 article)
- Is internal audit communicating? (2016 article)
- Writing the right report (2016 article)
- Questioning techniques for internal auditors (2015 vodcast)
- Threats to audit objectivity - and how to manage them (2015 article)
Leadership and career advice
- First line of defence - are you ready for the cuts? (2019 article)
- Will Internal Audit become the next Blackberry - Part 1 (2018 article)
- Will Internal Audit become the next Blackberry - Part 2 (2018 article)
- Are you anchored to your sector? (2018 article)
- Internal auditing - a career to aspire to (2017 article)
- Making the move from external audit to internal audit (2017 article)
- Making the transition from Internal Audit to an NED (2017 article)
- The value of mentoring (2016 article)
- Global ambitions - the international auditor (2016 article)
- Audit leadership (2016 article)
- Creating the internal audit centre of excellence (2016 article)
- Leadership - how to become a head of assurance (2015 article)
Technical
- Coronavirus: business not as usual - and that applies to IA as well (2020 article)
- Auditing outside the box (2020 article)
- Third party assurance - protecting yourself from reputational damage (2020 article)
- Adding value with agile auditing (2019 webinar)
- Auditing your firm's EWRA (2019 article)
- Where angels fear...internal audit and board effectiveness (2019 article)
- Understanding emergency, contingency and business continuity plans (2019 article)
- Root cause analysis for Internal Audit (2019 article)
- Third party/supply chain assurance (2018 webinar)
- Agile projects - a whole new world (2018 article)
- Agile audit of agile projects (2018 article)
- Internal Audit risk planning - expect more (2017 article)
- Checklists - an alternative approach (2017 article)
- Recommendations to agreed solutions (2017 article)
- Risk appetite and risk tolerance (2016 article)
- How to successfully launch an outcome and risk based internal audit service (2016 article)
- Integrated assurance - can IA really place reliance on others? (2016 article)
- The trials and tribulations of integrated assurance (2016 article)
- Board assurance frameworks - don't just stand in line (2016 article)
- Higher education and the CSR (2016 article)
- Cyber security and outsourcing for internal auditors (2016 webinar)
- Cyber security for internal auditors - how to react when you are under attack (2016 webinar)
- Auditing business continuity capabilities (2016 article)
- Maximising the value from assurance (2015 article)
- Crisis and continuity planning (2015 article)
- Why Business Process Improvement matters to IA (2015 article)
- Third party assurance provision (2015 article)
- Integrated assurance - too late to integrate? (2015 article)
- Lean auditing - what, why and how (2015 article)
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IT
Blockchain
- A question of timing - smart ledgers for internal audit purposes (2019 article)
- The crypto control toolbox (2019 article)
- Unblocking the crypto chain for internal auditors: introduction to blockchain (2019 webinar)
- Unblocking the crypto chain for internal auditors: smart ledgers & security (2019 webinar)
- Unblocking the crypto chain for internal auditors: immutability - a key blockchain and crypto feature (2019 webinar)
- Unblocking the crypto chain for internal auditors: the reality of cryptocurrencies and their audit implications (2019 webinar)
- A quick introduction to crypto currency (2018 article)
- Dark currencies and the risks (2017 article)
GDPR
- Moving GDPR preparation into operations (2019 article)
- GDPR for internal auditors - Beyond GDPR (2018 webinar)
- Big data versus GDPR (2018 webinar)
- Managing your cyber risk in the GDPR era (2018 webinar)
- Third party/supply chain assurance in the GDPR era (2018 webinar)
- Protecting IP and your business reputation in the GDPR era (2018 webinar)
- GDPR - what are you doing now? (2018 article)
Big data, data analytics and RPA
- Robotic Process Automation for internal auditors (2019 webinar)
- What is Big Data and how to use it (2018 webinar)
- Getting started in data analytics (2018 webinar)
- The legislation around Big Data (2018 webinar)
- Data analytics - assurance from an audit perspective (2018 webinar)
- How Internal Audit can use data to provide assurance (2018 webinar)
IT audit
- Should we worry about disruptive technology? (2018 article)
- More effective IT general controls (2018 article)
- Demystifying IT audit for business auditors - stop being afraid of the black box (2017 webinar)
- IT General Controls (2017 webinar)
- Application audit review (2017 webinar)
- Infrastructure audit review (2017 webinar)
- Integrating IT audit into the business audit (2017 webinar)
- How to audit cyber security (2017 webinar)
- General Data Protection Regulation (2017 webinar)
- Data analytics for internal auditors (2015 article)
Cyber security
- Key cyber security principles (2016 article)
- Introduction to cyber security for internal auditors (2016 webinar)
- Cyber security and data security (2016 webinar)
- Cyber security and social engineering (2016 webinar)
- Cyber security and process network control (2016 webinar)
- How to react when you are under attack (2016 webinar)
- Cyber security and outsourcing (2016 webinar)
- Latest techniques and attacks (2016 webinar)
- Bring your own X (BYoX) (2015 article)
- Cyber security for internal auditors (2015 article)
- Cyber security - what are the boardroom implications? (2015 article)
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Regulation/legislation
Other areas
- Criminal Finances Act - minimising the risk of tax evasion (2018 article)
- Internal Audit's important role in combating modern slavery (2018 article)
- Internal Audit's role in providing assurance over the over the Modern Slavery Act (2017 article)
- Bribery, corruption and slavery - assessing the risks (2016 article)
- The Bribery Act 2010 - five years one (2016 article)
- Bridging the gap between human rights and business (2016 article)
- Bring your own lawyer (2015 article)
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ACCA UK's annual Internal Audit Conference
In-depth session articles
- Reaching for nirvana (2019)
- Re-positioning Internal Audit (2019)
- Coping with modern technology (2018)
- Time to step out and stand out (2018)
- The ethical challenges to your moral compass (2017)
- When should an internal auditor blow the whistle (2017)
- Integrated assurance - can IA really place reliance on others (2016)
- The trials and tribulations of integrated assurance (2016)
- Cyber security for internal auditors (2015)
- Crisis and continuity planning - thinking outside the box (2015)