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 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.
Our Internal Audit Week took place from 20-24 September 2021 with the theme of resilience in a dynamic environment. Each day we held a one hour webinar with topics including auditing leadership, building personal and business resilience, ESG & climate risk, and supporting trust in audit and corporate governance. You can register to watch these free sessions.
Our most recent webinars took place in June 2022:
- Internal Audit: Courage...and calling it out as it is
- Internal Audit: Communication - doing more by doing less
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
- Auditing leadership (2021 webinar)
- Understanding and auditing leadership (2021 article)
- HR auditing (2020 article)
- Auditing culture and behaviour (2020 article)
- 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)
- Auditing culture: question and answer session (2015 webinar)
- Frauditing for internal auditors (2015 article)
- The driver and the racing car (2015 article)
Other areas
- Revisions to the FRC's Ethical Standard (2020 article)
- 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
- Communication - doing more by doing less (2022 webinar)
- Courage...and calling it out as it is (2022 webinar)
- Building business and personal resilience through challenge and change (2021 webinar)
- Building resilience - the cyclical nature of life (2021 article)
- Health and wellbeing - a challenge in the home 'workplace' of 2020 (2020 article)
- Internal Audit: mental health & wellbeing (2020 webinar)
- Effective communications - the report and the report process (2020 article)
- Effective communication with NEDs - accountability (2020 article)
- 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)
- Threats to audit objectivity - and how to manage them (2015 article)
- Questioning techniques for internal auditors (2015 vodcast)
Leadership and career advice
- NED aspirations (2020 article)
- What's expected of Senior Managers during Covid-19? (2020 article)
- Moving into Internal Audit (2019 webinars)
- 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
- What's on the radar looking forward? How to use risk hot spot updates (2022 article)
- UK SOX is (still) coming - it's time to prepare (2022 article)
- ESG trends for businesses in 2022 and beyond (2022 article)
- Internal Audit: Where now? (2021 article)
- Metamorphosis of Internal Audit - is Internal Audit sustainable? (2021 webinar)
- ESG - time for clarity and action (2021 article)
- ESG and Climate Risk (2021 webinar)
- Internal Audit - a view from the Board (2021 article)
- Work programmes and testing in the Covid-19 era (2021 article)
- Work programmes and testing in the Covid-19 era (2021 webinar)
- Internal Audit - a view from the Board (2021 webinar)
- Auditing agile and agile auditing (2021 article)
- The pros and cons of advisory reports (2021 article)
- Geographic risk - knowing where to go (2020 article)
- Climate change and stakeholder reporting (2020 webinar)
- Why climate change should matter to internal auditors (2020 article)
- Auditing agile (2020 webinar)
- Business resilience (2020 webinar)
- Third line lessons from the front line of the pandemic (2020 article)
- 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)
- How to successfully launch an outcome and risk based internal audit service (2016 article)
- Risk appetite and risk tolerance (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)
- Assurance on outsourced services (2015 webinar)
- De-mystifying business process improvement (2015 webinar)
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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
- The next generation of Internal Auditing (2020 webinar)
- Internal Audit and technology - managing common problems and barriers (2020 webinar)
- 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
- Managing IT risk - learning as we go (2020 article)
- The use of social media by employees (2020 article)
- 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
- Supporting trust in audit and corporate governance (2021 article)
- Supporting trust in audit and corporate governance (2021 webinar)
- 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 on (2016 article)
- Bridging the gap between human rights and business (2016 article)
- Bring your own lawyer (2015 article)
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In-depth session articles
- Internal Audit: Where now? (2021)
- Supporting trust in audit and corporate governance (2021)
- ESG - time for clarity and action (2021)
- Building resilience - the cyclical nature of life (2021)
- Understanding and auditing leadership (2021)
- 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)