Date : 11 July 2025
Timing : 9:00 - 16:00 (30 min lunch break)
Language : English
CPE Points : 7
Deadline to register : 1st July 2025
Instructor : John Chesshire
Online Training
 
Auditing Strategic Planning and Performance Management
Course Description
Strategic planning is critical for organisational success and yet many internal audit teams are uncertain of how to audit this subject and unclear on how to ensure they add value in this vital area. Organisational performance management is equally important and can provide early indication of successes and warning of potential failure. 
 
But what should we be considering when we audit these vital elements of strategic management? 
 
This course will help you be a better auditor in these key areas. 
 
It will give you increased confidence in how to identify relevant objectives, risks and controls and thereby provide more meaningful, insightful and useful assurance. This course will equip you with an overview of the strategic planning and performance management challenges facing organisations today, and help you include these interesting, but complex, subjects on your internal audit team’s annual plan. 
Who should attend? 
Chief audit executives, internal audit managers, senior internal auditors and internal auditors involved in providing assurance on strategic planning and organisational performance management, or those wanting to find out more about internal audit developments in these vital areas. It is particularly relevant for those wanting to add greater value and deliver enhanced insight through successful internal audit engagements.
 
Course Programme
This course will take you through the following learning steps:
What the Global Internal Audit Standards say about auditing strategy and strategic planning
The purpose and benefits of strategic planning and management
Key characteristics and features
The role of the internal auditor
Organisational performance management
Auditing strategic and performance management
Good practices and addressing the challenges
 
The course includes facilitator input, topical examples, short practical discussions and a number of task-based exercises to reinforce the methods you have learned.
 
CPE competency areas covered 
 
Performance (Organizational governance)
Performance (Engagement planning)
Performance (Engagement fieldwork)
Environment (Organizational strategic planning and management).
 
 
Trainer
John Chesshire, CFIIA, QIAL, CRMA, CIA, CISA, has over 24 years' experience working in the internal audit, risk management, business improvement and governance fields. John is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute in the UK, an Independent Internal Audit Committee Chair, and was Chief Assurance Officer for the States of Guernsey until the start of 2021. He has delivered many well-received courses to IIA Luxembourg in the past, as well as to many other European Institutes of Internal Auditors. 
His other recent clients include FTSE listed companies, multinationals, central and local government, law enforcement, charities, professional services companies, and international organisations such as NATO, the OECD, and UN Agencies. He is a principal examiner for the Institute of Risk Management and has been a visiting lecturer in the Governance and Assurance Hub at Birmingham City University. 
He loves internal audit, is a great friend of IIA Luxembourg and particularly enjoys working in new and emerging areas of assurance interest.