TeamMate+ Audit Management for Internal Auditors Training Course

Course overview

Internal audit teams lose time when audit planning, risk assessment, workpapers, review notes, and reporting are managed across disconnected spreadsheets, shared drives, and email threads. TeamMate+ Audit Management provides a controlled environment for documenting the audit universe, creating risk-based plans, executing engagements, evidencing conclusions, and tracking issues through remediation. This course helps experienced auditors use the platform in a way that improves audit-file consistency, review visibility, and the traceability required by audit committees, regulators, and external quality assessments.

Participants work through the TeamMate+ Audit Management lifecycle: navigating the audit universe, setting up entities and engagements, defining objectives and scopes, building risk-and-control matrices, assigning work programs, recording test results, attaching evidence, raising review notes, and issuing reports. They learn how TeamMate+ fields, templates, workflows, security roles, dashboards, and reporting outputs support Internal Audit methodology rather than merely digitising existing workpapers. The course also connects platform configuration decisions to the IIA Global Internal Audit Standards and COSO-based control assessment.

Delivery combines instructor-led demonstrations with guided work in a realistic audit scenario. Participants build and execute a sample operational audit in a TeamMate+ training environment, progressing from annual-plan context to a documented finding and follow-up action. They leave with a completed audit engagement pack: a risk assessment, work program, test workpapers, linked evidence, review trail, audit finding, report extract, and a practical adoption plan for applying the workflow within their own audit function.

The course is designed for internal auditors and audit-management professionals who already understand the fundamentals of risk, controls, testing, and audit evidence, and now need to use TeamMate+ confidently and consistently. It is particularly valuable where an audit team is implementing TeamMate+, standardising its methodology, or seeking stronger oversight of engagement progress and open issues.

Course objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Configure an audit engagement structure using TeamMate+ entities, auditable units, templates, and engagement metadata
• Build a risk-based audit plan by linking audit-universe information, risk ratings, and planned engagement coverage
• Create a risk-and-control matrix that connects objectives, risks, controls, test procedures, and conclusions
• Develop TeamMate+ work programs with assigned procedures, due dates, milestones, and reviewer responsibilities
• Document audit testing in electronic workpapers with linked evidence, test results, cross-references, and sign-offs
• Manage review notes and workflow status to resolve comments and maintain a complete supervisory review trail
• Draft audit findings with root cause, risk impact, recommendations, management actions, and target dates
• Produce engagement-status and issue-follow-up reports for audit managers, stakeholders, and audit committees

Benefits of attending

Target competencies

Who should attend

• Internal Auditors — who need to plan, document, and conclude engagements within TeamMate+
• Senior Internal Auditors — who supervise workpapers and need consistent review-note and sign-off workflows
• Internal Audit Managers — who need reliable visibility of engagement progress, resource status, and open issues
• IT Auditors — who document technology risks, control tests, evidence, and findings in audit-management software
• Risk and Controls Analysts — who support risk assessments, control documentation, and issue remediation tracking
• Internal Audit Methodology Leads — who standardise templates, work programs, and quality-assurance practices

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have practical experience of the internal audit cycle, including audit planning, risk assessment, control evaluation, testing, workpapers, findings, and reporting. They should be comfortable using web-based business applications and handling electronic evidence files. Familiarity with their organisation’s audit methodology, risk taxonomy, and approval process is useful. Prior TeamMate+ experience is not required; the course introduces the relevant Audit Management workflow from the user perspective. Participants do not need programming, database administration, system configuration authority, or prior expertise in COSO or the IIA Global Internal Audit Standards.

Training methodology

The instructor demonstrates each TeamMate+ Audit Management workflow before participants complete it in a guided training scenario. Short sessions on audit methodology are followed by hands-on configuration of an engagement, risk-and-control matrix, work program, workpapers, review notes, and findings. Teams compare evidence sufficiency and wording of findings in peer-review exercises, then use platform status and reporting views to brief an audit manager. The final session includes individual application planning, focused on the participant’s next live engagement, local templates, approval points, and reporting requirements.

Course outline

Day 1: TeamMate+ foundations and risk-based planning

• TeamMate+ Audit Management navigation, menus, dashboards, and user roles
• Audit universe, entities, auditable units, and organisational hierarchy
• Annual audit planning and engagement selection using risk information
• Engagement lifecycle stages, statuses, milestones, and ownership
• Audit methodology alignment with the IIA Global Internal Audit Standards
• Using engagement templates, metadata fields, and naming conventions
• Security permissions, segregation of duties, and audit-trail considerations

Workshop: Participants create a planned procurement audit from a supplied audit-universe record and define its engagement metadata, team roles, milestones, and initial scope.

Day 2: Scoping, risks, controls, and work programs

• Translating audit objectives into scoped processes and auditable activities
• Risk assessment criteria, inherent risk, residual risk, and prioritisation
• Risk-and-control matrix design within the engagement structure
• Control objectives, key controls, control owners, and control frequency
• Linking COSO control concepts to operational audit documentation
• Building test procedures for design and operating-effectiveness testing
• Work-program assignments, due dates, dependencies, and budgeted hours

Workshop: Using a procure-to-pay case, participants build a risk-and-control matrix and assign a risk-based work program to an audit team.

Day 3: Executing and evidencing audit work

• Electronic workpaper structure, indexing, cross-referencing, and sign-offs
• Recording population definitions, sampling rationale, and test attributes
• Documenting test steps, exceptions, compensating controls, and conclusions
• Attaching, linking, and retaining electronic audit evidence
• Using standard workpaper templates and reusable audit procedures
• Managing workpaper status, preparer certification, and reviewer access
• Quality attributes for sufficient, relevant, reliable, and traceable evidence

Workshop: Participants complete three test workpapers, attach sample evidence, record exceptions, and document a defensible testing conclusion.

Day 4: Review workflow, findings, and reporting

• Supervisory review workflow and workpaper sign-off sequencing
• Creating, assigning, responding to, and clearing review notes
• Converting exceptions into findings using cause, risk, and impact analysis
• Documenting recommendations, management responses, owners, and due dates
• Finding ratings, escalation criteria, and consistent issue classification
• Generating engagement reports and extracting report-ready content
• Using dashboards and status reports to monitor fieldwork progress

Workshop: Participants review a colleague’s audit file, issue and clear review notes, then produce a management-ready finding and report extract.

Day 5: Issue follow-up, quality assurance, and workplace application

• Issue follow-up workflows, remediation evidence, and closure decisions
• Monitoring overdue actions, ageing, and recurring-control failures
• Engagement close-out procedures and audit-file completeness checks
• Using TeamMate+ reporting for audit management and audit committee updates
• Data-quality controls for consistent fields, templates, and classifications
• Common implementation pitfalls in workflow adoption and user discipline
• Personal application planning for live TeamMate+ engagements

Workshop: Participants complete a follow-up review and close-out checklist, then present a 90-day TeamMate+ application plan for their own audit portfolio.

Tools & standards covered

TeamMate+ Audit Management, TeamMate+ Controls Management, IIA Global Internal Audit Standards, COSO Internal Control—Integrated Framework

A typical training day

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in the East Africa Time zone, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

How you can take this course

Certification

Participants who complete the full five days receive the Skillset Development Certificate of Completion, stating the course title, course code, dates and delivery format — suitable for professional-development records and employer reimbursement.

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