Upcoming CIAN Training course:

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The next CIAN training day will be held on Wednesday 20th November 2024

 

The topic will be Auditing Projects and Change

 

The cost will be £130

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It will be held at BDO offices in London (at 55 Baker Street, Marylebone, London W1U 7EU, United Kingdom)

 

Lunch and beverages throughout the day will be provided.

 

If you would like to attend, please contact training@cian.org.uk to request the booking form. Places are limited and so will be allocated on a “first come-first served” basis.

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Please don't forget that we offer one free training place for charities without a training budget. Please email training@cian.org.uk for more information.

 

The course:

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​Change has been the ‘new normal’ for many years. And yet, many organisations continue to fail to plan, deliver or embed change as successfully as they should. This causes cost overruns, reputational damage, delays, stakeholder frustration and inefficiency.

How can boards, leaders and audit committees be confident that their organisation is managing change initiatives, projects and programmes successfully and addressing the common causes of failure?

This course will equip you with an overview of techniques and approaches to help you deliver advice and assurance over change and projects. It will help give you the confidence to include these engagements on your internal audit team’s periodic plan. Attending this session will help you develop a practical framework for approaching the assurance of change and project performance and enable you to deliver insight and value in your work in these critical areas.

Who should attend?
This one-day course is designed for chief audit executives and their teams who are involved in planning and providing assurance on organisation change initiatives, programmes and projects. It is particularly relevant for those wanting to add greater value and deliver enhanced insight in their assurance and consulting work on business change management.

Course Programme
This course will take you through the following learning steps:
• Internal audit involvement in change, projects and programmes
• Internal audit and projects - engagement options
• Project stage reviews - detailed approaches
• Agile projects and internal audit
• Common causes of project failure
• Auditing change - good practices and addressing the challenges

The course includes facilitator input, topical examples, short practical discussions and task-based exercises to build upon existing knowledge and reinforce your learning. The course covers the following IIA Global CPE competency areas: Engagement planning (Performance), Common business processes (Environment) and Internal audit strategic planning and management (Leadership and Communication) and Audit plan and coordinating assurance efforts (Leadership and Communication).

The trainer:

John Chesshire, CFIIA, QIAL, CIA, CISA has over 25 years' experience working in the internal audit, risk management, business improvement and governance fields. John is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute in the UK, is an Independent Internal Audit Committee Chair and has been Chief Assurance Officer for the States of Guernsey.

He has delivered many well-received courses to several European Institutes of Internal Auditors and his other recent clients include FTSE listed companies, multinationals, central and local government, law enforcement, international charities, professional services companies, and international organisation such as NATO, the OECD and UN Agencies.

He loves internal audit and particularly enjoys working in new and emerging areas of assurance interest. John is a long-standing friend of CIAN.
 

​​We are reliant on members' feedback for the topic selection of future training courses. If there is a training course you would like to see, please let us know at training@cian.org.uk

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Slides from all previous network meetings are available in the resources section in the members' area of the website.  Some sessions have also been recorded. Details of our most recent sessions are included below. 

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Sustainability Special Interest Group (SSIG)

The Sustainability SIG is for internal auditors who are keen to learn how to audit sustainability within their organisations and discuss challenges with colleagues in the sector. 

 

The next meeting is on TBC.

This is the first meeting of our new SSIG exploring the world of today’s sustainability strategies, practices and reporting in charities, and how the UN sustainable development goals are or should be impacting your internal auditing plans and practices.
An introduction to the Group will be presented by Professor Jeffrey Ridley, founder of CIAN, past president of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors and author of Proactive Internal Auditors Transform our World into being a Better Place* – published in the US by Thomson Reuters in 2023.   Jeffrey will be speaking on his thoughts for how we and our organisations can, and some are, addressing sustainability in their values, strategies, practices and reporting.   Following that there will be opportunities for questions and suggestions for how future meetings of the Group will be held in 2024.

 
If you would like to attend, email comms@cian.org.uk. 

 

Small Audit Function Special Interest Group (SAF SIG)

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The SAF SIG is for internal audit teams of three people or fewer - we appreciate that being an internal auditor in the charity can be challenging when you're in a small team with limited resources, and members of this SIG find it extremely valuable. 

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The next meeting with a full agenda is on TBC.

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We also provide a series of lunchtime ad-hoc catch ups, where SAF members may attend as they wish. One or more of these may be on a specific topic TBA:

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TBC

 

Lunchtime IIA Standards/EQA discussions, where those SAF members interested discuss between them:

TBC

 

Previous meetings have included practical tips for Quality Assurance and Improvement Programs and how we can undertake these effectively with limited resources, including a constructive conversation with Liz Sandwith, the Chief Professional Practice Advisor for the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors.

 

If you'd like to join the SIG, email comms@cian.org.uk and we'll get you on the mailing list!

 

Retail Special Interest Group (Retail SIG)

If your charity has a Retail element, you'll love our Retail Special Interest Group! The next meeting is on TBC.

 

Previous meetings have had extremely engaging speakers on subjects such as safeguarding in retail.

If you'd like to join the Retail SIG, email comms@cian.org.uk and we'll get you on the mailing list!

 

 

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13th June 2024 - Webinar Network Meeting

Slides from the following presentations are available in the resources area of our website, in the Network Meetings folder:

​Liz Sandwith from SWAP Audit - Overview of the Global Internal Audit Standards 2024 - what's new and what are the impacts for the profession

Jonathan Orchard from Sayer Vincent - Working with Your Audit Committee. 

 

12th June 2024 - In-Person Training - Radical Reporting

This half-day training course was presented by Sara James (www.saraijames.com). 

 

24th October 2023 - In-Person Training with John Chesshire - Auditing Third Party Risk

This half-day training course was presented by John Chesshire (http://jc-audit.com/). 

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11th September 2023 - In-person Network Meeting and AGM

Slides from the following presentations are available in the resources area of our website and were emailed to the attendees, in the Network Meetings folder:

Richard Evans (Head of Risk and Assurance at Crowe) on Leadership in Uncertain times

Benchmarking Survey results presented by Garry Smith NSPCC

Break-out sessions to discuss Charities and ESG Reporting – our role as Internal Auditor

 

23rd March 2023 - Webinar Network Meeting

Slides from the following presentations are available in the resources area of our website and were emailed to the attendees, in the Network Meetings folder:

Presentation on current issues in cyber security - Paul Kelly - Azets

Q&A with Paul Kelly and Mark Sedman - WaterAid

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27th April 2022 - In-Person Training - Assurance Framework and Mapping

This half-day training course was presented by John Chesshire (http://jc-audit.com/). Slides from the training are available in the resources area of the website.

 

23rd March 2023 - Webinar Network Meeting

Slides from the following presentations are available in the resources area of our website, in the Network Meetings folder:

Presentation on Updating Standards for a Changing World - Liz Sandwith - Chartered IIA

Insider Threat - Tracey Carpenter - Cifas

7th October 2022 - In-Person Network Meeting

Slides from the following presentations are available in the resources area of our website, in the Network Meetings folder:

Presentation on State of the Sector: A Data Led Approach to Tailoring Charity Regulation - Vicki Feltham & Kim Andrews - Charity Commission

Presentation on Internal Audit perspectives for 2023 planning - Richard Evans - Crowe

 

4th May 2022 - Webinar Network Meeting

Slides from the following presentations are available in the resources area of our website, in the Network Meetings folder:

• Presentation on Data Analytics – Challenge the Plan - Derek Jamieson (The Institute of Internal Auditors)

• Presentations on Internal Audit – Ideas for Resourcing on a Budget

          Vanessa Clark (Action for Children) - Benefits of Design-Only Audits

          Jonathan Orchard (Sayer Vincent) - Making the most of Secondments

          Laura Kemp (RSPB) - Internal Audit Apprenticeships

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2nd February 2022 - Webinar Network Meeting

Slides from the following presentations are available in the resources area of our website, in the Network Meetings folder:

• Data protection – key do’s and don’ts for charities” Iain Bourne – Grant Thornton

• Fighting Fraud: How implementing a robust “Counter-fraud Framework” can transform counter-fraud in your organisation” Sandeep Das – St John Ambulance