IT Audit For Non-IT Auditors

Information Technology (IT) is a critical enabler of business. As computing power has advanced, enterprises have become increasingly dependent on technology to carry out their operational requirements and to collect, process, maintain and report essential data.

This reliance on electronically encoded data and on the systems that affect managerial decisions are a major concern of audit professionals.

Assuring an enterprise’s governance, including risk management and control processes requires auditors to understand the role of IT within their organizations and to develop adequate knowledge and skills to audit IT systems as the line separating “IT,” and “non-IT” audits are beginning to disappear, except in the very technical IT domains.

Digital transformation has increased the reliance on IT, which now acts as an enabler to increased market speed, superior customer satisfaction, reduced costs, and other benefits that contribute to the achievement of organizational objectives.

Organizations have never had a greater need for reliable assurance over the technological capabilities that fueled and continue to fuel their digital transformation.

Learning Outcomes:

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental concepts of IT auditing, and how to apply them on the job. Learn about IT governance and the regulatory environment, general controls, application controls, and enduser computing, and how to perform various IT audits, and more.

Participants will:

• Explore the steps to perform an audit of IT applications utilizing general IT control audit concepts.
• Examine the steps for coordinating the assessment of IT risks with the evaluation of IT general controls.
• Recognize the concepts of application controls as they relate to auditing systems in development.
• Identify the steps to perform a risk assessment and an evaluation of controls over end-user computer applications, utilizing general IT control concepts