Modifying Your Risk-Based Internal Audit Plan in Times of Crisis

Field: Auditing | Delivery Method: Self Study | CPE Hours: 1.0

In the middle of one of the biggest impact events of the last 100 years, many internal auditors are most concerned with social distancing and how to complete their audit plan virtually. This completely misses the mark and opportunity we have as a professional with risk-based internal auditing.


Risk-based internal auditing is about focusing our efforts on those areas that most significantly impact the organization being able to meet its objectives, based on objectives. The COVID-19 pandemic will impact every organization in ways that were not imaged when the last audit plan was developed ... which means your audit plan most likely needs a complete over-haul to be relevant this next year.

In this discussion you will learn how to understand the impacts the pandemic will have on your organization (many of which you haven't even imagined) and a step-by-step methodology for updating your audit plan to be relevant with the opportunities and threats faced by your organization in the new normal we find ourselves in as we move forward.

If you don't change what you do this next year to align with what your organization really needs, your risk being seen as obsolete and down-graded by other executives and your board.


Field: Auditing
Delivery Method: Self Study

CPE Hours: 1.0

Format: Video


Your Instructor


Jason Mefford
Jason Mefford

Jason Mefford is a rock star in internal audit, risk management and compliance. He typically works with Chief Audit Executives (CAE), Audit Committee (AC) members, and professionals in audit, risk and compliance with the technical and soft-skills needed to navigate the land mines of organizations. He takes complicated, confusing and hard things, makes them practical, proactive and simple to improve learning and transformation.


He's been a Chief Audit Executive, Chief Risk Officer, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Board Member, and has trained and consulted organizations all over the world. He is a thought leader in all things governance, risk and compliance (GRC) and internal audit, and is the recipient of multiple awards including:


  • Rising Star in Corporate Governance from Yale University
  • Rising Star in Corporate Governance Award (Finalist) from Corporate Secretary Magazine
  • Thought Leader of the Year (Finalist) from The National Association of Experts, Writers & Speakers
  • Fellow from the Open Compliance & Ethics Group (OCEG) Think Tank


You can learn more about him at: https://www.jasonmefford.com and join him in the Audit Leader Forum™ at: https://bit.ly/AuditLeader


Course Curriculum


  Modifying Your Risk-Based Internal Audit Plan in Times of Crisis
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