Critical Thinking in Internal Audit

$
1800.00
2 days | 16 academic hours

Training objectives
Training program Day 1
Training program Day 2

Training objectives

  • Learn how to apply critical thinking in internal audit processes
  • Identify the main thinking traps and understand how to manage them
  • Understand how to maintain a critical perspective when searching for, evaluating, and analyzing relevant information
  • Find well-supported evidence for your decisions
  • Present your point of view in a reasoned manner
  • Learn to analyze others’ arguments and resist manipulation

Training program Day 1

IAS 37 Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets
  • Scope and definitions
  • Initial recognition and measurement
  • Measurement of decommissioning and environmental restoration provisions
  • Onerous contracts
  • Restructuring
  • Disclosure requirements
IAS 36 Impairment of Assets
  • Determination and measurement of recoverable amount
  • Recognition and measurement of impairment loss
  • Determination and identification of CGUs (Cash-Generating Units)
  • Recognition of impairment losses for CGUs
  • Reversal of impairment loss
  • Disclosure requirements
IFRS 5 Non-current Assets Held for Sale and Discontinued Operations
  • Scope and definitions
  • Classification of non-current assets as held for sale
  • Measurement of non-current assets or disposal groups
  • Presentation and disclosure in financial statements

Training program Day 2

Cognitive Biases in Thinking
  • Thinking traps
  • Manipulation of consciousness and personal biases
The Decision-Making Mechanism in Conditions Of Uncertainty
  • Distorted evaluation of information
  • Types of information literacy
  • Identifying and evaluating the source of information
  • Defining and analyzing the message
  • Statistical information
Critical Thinking and Argumentation
  • Structure of argumentation
  • Opinions, reasoned judgments, and facts
  • Well-founded recommendations
  • Algorithm for evaluating argumentation in internal auditors’ recommendations
  • Psychology of argumentation: false arguments
  • Practical exercises and case studies