Auditing Technology and IT Investment Management

This IT Audit webinar will demonstrate how to evaluate your Technology Investments’ implementation “readiness” thereby reducing your risks during implementation along with the general audit steps, Audit risk assessment, Audit objectives, Audit approach, Audit testing, Audit report etc. It will also cover IT Investment Management issues and how to improve the organization’s IT results.

Why Should You Attend:

Internal auditors play a valuable role in ensuring that IT investments are well-managed and have a positive impact on an organization. Changes to a company’s information technology (IT) environment, both information systems and the underlying platforms, are a source of significant operational risk. To protect its IT investment and reduce operating risk, robust change management processes are critical.

This IT audit webinar will help auditors (When planning system conversion audits) how to get a good understanding of the business requirements for the system, the project's risks, and how the proposed system will work. To understand the solution, they must identify the various operational and system changes that will be implemented. Also, because project information usually becomes available over time, how to have some audit planning be completed on an iterative basis. Finally, leading edge IT Investment practices will be discussed, helping your organization’s IT improvement effort as well as your IT results.

At the end of this seminar the speaker will answer your specific questions you may have on technology investments and IT investment management.

Areas Covered in this Webinar:

• Audit scope.
• What is the goal?
• Planning efforts.
• The general audit steps.
• Audit risk assessment.
• Audit objectives.
• Audit approach.
• What auditors like to see.
• Audit testing.
• Issues to watch out for.
• Other considerations.
• The audit report.
• Lessons learned.
• Leading edge IT Investment Management practices.
• Next steps.
• Further recommended readings.

Who Will Benefit:

• CIOs
• Senior IT Executives
• Project Sponsors
• Project Managers
• Chief Audit Executives
• IT Auditors
• Executive Management with oversight responsibilities
• Risk Managers
• Quality and Software Testing Professionals