The Internal Audit Professional Series is a comprehensive 18-module training program designed to transform internal audit professionals from foundational competence to strategic excellence. Developed and published by Business Excellence, a leading advisory and consultancy firm specializing in internal audit, risk management, corporate governance, and business strategy, this series delivers practical, actionable knowledge aligned with the Global Internal Audit Standards (GIAS 2024).
Module 15: Quality Assurance and Improvement Program Implementation provides comprehensive guidance for designing, implementing, and maintaining world-class QAIP programs. This module equips CAEs and audit leaders with practical frameworks for ensuring conformance with GIAS 2024 standards while driving continuous improvement in audit quality and effectiveness.
This module covers 7 comprehensive sections:
1. QAIP Framework Design – Building your quality foundation through GIAS 2024 QAIP requirements overview, program structure templates covering purpose, governance, assessment procedures, and reporting mechanisms, roles and responsibilities matrices using RACI format, and QAIP charter templates with essential components.
2. Ongoing Internal Assessment Procedures – Continuous quality monitoring through supervisory review checklists covering planning adequacy, workpaper quality, evidence sufficiency, finding development, and report quality. Features engagement quality review procedures with selection criteria, real-time quality monitoring tools, and trend analysis methodology.
3. Periodic Internal Assessment Process – Deep dive self-assessment through comprehensive methodology covering full conformance review, sample engagement reviews, stakeholder surveys, and benchmarking comparison. Includes detailed internal assessment work programs, peer review procedures, and internal assessment report templates.
4. External Quality Assessment Preparation – Preparing for external review through 90-day countdown EQA readiness assessment checklists, documentation preparation guides organizing foundational documents, QAIP documentation, engagement files, and operational evidence. Features assessor selection criteria and EQA coordination procedures.
5. Quality Metrics and KPI Dashboard – Measuring quality performance through comprehensive quality indicator catalogs with 12 key metrics, metric calculation procedures with formulas, data sources, and targets, and quality dashboard design templates for CAE, audit committee, and team audiences.
6. Conformance Gap Remediation – Addressing quality issues through gap prioritization frameworks classifying issues as Critical, Important, or Developmental, remediation action planning templates with root cause analysis, and conformance validation testing procedures ensuring gaps are truly closed.
7. Continuous Improvement Process – Getting better every day through improvement opportunity identification from assessments, stakeholder feedback, benchmarking, and team suggestions. Features change implementation procedures, improvement impact measurement approaches, and building quality culture leadership practices.
This module includes ready-to-use tools such as QAIP charter templates, supervisory review checklists, engagement quality review procedures, self-assessment work programs, internal assessment report templates, EQA readiness checklists, quality indicator catalogs, metric calculation procedures, dashboard design templates, gap prioritization matrices, remediation action plan templates, QAIP implementation roadmaps, and quality maturity assessment models.
The Internal Audit Professional Series progresses through four levels: Foundation (Modules 1-5), Core Processes (Modules 6-10), Specialized Practice (Modules 11-14), and Advanced Application (Modules 15-18). Save significantly by purchasing the complete 18-module bundle.
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Source: Best Practices in Quality Management, Audit Management PDF: IA Professional Series - M15 - Quality Assurance (QAIP) PDF (PDF) Document, Amer Morgan
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