A TWO-DAY training seminar/workshop, intended to aid local auditors to detect problems, weaknesses and deficiencies in their audits, was started yesterday by the Guyana Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). It will deal with tools and techniques for the practitioners and forensic auditing, also, catering for management personnel, accountants and financial and human resource managers.
Taking place at Regency Suites Hotel, in Hadfield Street, Georgetown, the presenters are President of the IIA Guyana Chapter, Mr. Deodat Indar and Jamaican Mr. Collin Greenland.
Speaking to the Guyana Chronicle after the programme was declared open, Indar said the first day involved local facilitators, including himself, while today would see Greenland looking into forensic auditing.
“Over the two days, we will try to ensure that we equip auditors with the kind of tools that they need to go into the dynamic workplace to function properly and get results from their audits.
“If they find something, they go through a proper mechanism so they could remedy those deficiencies. So our whole purpose is to improve the competence of practicing auditors,” he explained.
According to him, this is the 13th year in which workshops of this nature were being conducted.
Each year, the IIA hosts about three, Indar said, adding that one is planned soon after one is completed.
This is the first for the year and the next will be held around July and then in the last quarter, he said.
Past President and current IIA Board member, Mr. John Seeram pointed out that, over the last three years, 12 seminars were conducted.
He said some 80 persons participated yesterday, and today’s session will see approximately 95. The number of organisations which, usually, make use of the training is about 43.
Seeram explained that, over the past three years, the topics dealt with were fraud, governance, risk management and the IIA standards, among others.
He said yesterday’s session drew on those subjects and will tell the audit manager and his staff what tools they need to do internal auditing to the level of expectation.
Seeram said his presentation focused on the operations of an audit office, commencing with the chief internal auditor and his staffing.