Welcome to Lal Balkaran

INTERNAL AUDIT

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Lal Balkaran is a Certified Internal Auditor, Fellow Certified General Accountant, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, and an MBA from the Edinburgh Business School.

Mr. Balkaran, a long-time IIA member, has written several books and articles on internal auditing and related subjects published across the globe and has more than twenty five years of internal auditing experience. Perceived as an internal audit leader, Mr. Balkaran is a Past President of the IIA-Toronto and sits on the IIA Global CREA and Internal Auditor Editorial Advisory Board. He is also the Canadian IIA’s 2010 Arthur Child’s Distinguished Service in Canada Award recipient for outstanding and exceptional service to the profession of internal auditing.


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Topics Presented On

1. Auditing the ERM Effort
2. Understanding and Applying the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing or IIA Standards
3. The Institute of Internal Auditors’ International Professional Practices Framework – Basis for an Effective Audit
4. Fraud Auditing Fundamentals – Role of the Board, Audit Committee, Senior Management, and Auditors
5. Corporate Governance Auditing – Auditing the Board, Audit Committee, Senior Management and the Auditors.
6. The Intellectual Property Auditing Process
7. The new International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF) of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA).
8. Risk-based Audit Planning
9. Risk-based Internal Auditing
10. Internal Auditing vs. External Auditing
11. How internal audit adds value
12. Internal Audit Best Practices
13. Understanding Fraud and Fraud Auditing
14. Benford’s Law and Digital Analysis
15. Procurement Auditing
16. Auditing the Human Resources function
17. The Nature of an Operational Audit
18. Writing Effective Audit Reports
19. Importance of Multiculturalism in Auditing
20. Governance Practices in the Public Sector
21. The Role of the Auditor in Fighting Corruption
22. Fundamentals of Information Technology Auditing
23. Treasury Auditing
24. An effective Internal Auditor
25. Basics of Financial Auditing
26. Inter-personal Skills for the Internal Auditor
27. Internal Audit and Corporate Governance
28. Audit Planning Fundamentals
29. Organizing for an Effective Internal Audit Function
30. The Philosophy of Auditing
31. Different Types of Auditing
32. Quality Assurance Review of the Internal Audit Function
33. New Developments in Internal Auditing
34. The new COSO-ERM framework

ORGANIZATIONS PRESENTED TO

1. Audit Office of Guyana
2. Brookfield Asset Management
3. OMERS
4. Ernst & Young
5. KPMG
6. Vale
7. Ontario Universities and Colleges Association
8. University of Guyana
9. University of the West Indies (Cave Hill Campus, Barbados)
10. Demerara Distilleries Limited (DDL) - Guyana
11. Institute of Internal Auditors (Guyana)
12. CGA Association
13. Institute of Internal Auditors (Ottawa)
14. Institute of Internal Auditors (Saskatchewan)
15. Institute of Chartered Accountants (Barbados)
16. Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (Barbados)
17. Caribbean Examinations Council (Barbados)
18. Institute of Internal Auditors (Jamaica)
19. Government of Ontario (Canada)
20. Ontario Universities Internal Auditors’ Association
21. University of Toronto
22. Sears Canada
23. Toronto Hospital
24. Business Ethics Forum (Toronto)
25. Institute of Internal Auditors (Toronto)
26. Canadian Philippino Accountants’ Association
27. Sino-Canada Technology Organization (Toronto)
28. American Museum of Natural History (New York)