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TRAINING COURSE

Recurrent Auditing Techniques

Introduction

This auditing techniques course provides participants with the basic skills, knowledge and attitudes to support an organisation's compliance monitoring processes. This course aims to review and improve participants’ auditing techniques by re-visiting previous training elements and, additionally, addresses performance-based auditing and risk-assessing findings.

This is a recurrent course designed to review and enhance auditing techniques.

Over time, in fact, auditing skills may not develop to the necessary level for fully effective auditing, or auditors may adopt bad practices that significantly reduce the effectiveness of audit activities. Furthermore, new best practices may have emerged that auditors are unaware of, making it essential to refresh and update their knowledge regularly

This course aims to review and improve auditing techniques of auditors by re-visiting previous training elements and addressing performance-based auditing and risk-assessing findings.

Course Content

Upon completion of this course you will have a renewed understanding fo the audit process and be able to:

  • Understand the principles of auditing
  • Understand the different types of audits
  • Select the correct type of audit for the occasion
  • Understand performance- based auditing to be able to apply it
  • Make an audit plan
  • Make an audit checklist
  • Make an audit schedule
  • Conduct an audit
  • Understand audit processes and procedures
  • Write audit findings
  • Debrief auditees
  • Risk- classify findings

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you should have:

  • Upon completion of this course you will have a renewed understanding fo the audit process and be able to:

    • Understand the principles of auditing
    • Understand the different types of audits
    • Select the correct type of audit for the occasion
    • Understand performance- based auditing to be able to apply it
    • Make an audit plan
    • Make an audit checklist
    • Make an audit schedule
    • Conduct an audit
    • Understand audit processes and procedures
    • Write audit findings
    • Debrief auditees
    • Risk- classify findings

Who should take this course

  • Aviation Auditors and Aviation Lead Auditors that would like to refresh their auditing technique knowledge.
  • In particular, this course is directed to those Auditing Professionals who have previously attended one of the JAA TO range of auditor training courses, or other internationally recognized auditor training programmes/have several years of audit experience, and who wish to update their competences in relation to current audit ‘best practices’ in auditing techniques.  

Pre-requisites

Essential:

A basic understanding of auditing techniques together with a minimum of 12 months of practical auditing experience in an aviation environment.