Developing New Business Applications – A Risk and Control Snapshot (new for 2012)

Auditors agree on the need to review applications whilst they are still under development. This course provides key skills knowledge to enable a non-technical auditor to deal with most application-under-development reviews.

Suitability and duration

Suitability: Novice - Intermediate

Duration: 1 days

Who should attend

The course has been designed for all internal auditors who wish to extend their current skill set.

Benefits

Skills

After completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Audit applications under development

Support Materials

This course will be accompanied by a training manual containing briefing materials and examples.

Programme

Initiation

• Users and user requirements specifications (URS)
• Feasibility and analysis
• Impact on other systems and interfaces

Design

• Detailed user requirements specification (detailed URS)
• Analysis and Design
• Control framework – linkage to enterprise risk
• Performance and capacity

Development

• Tools and methodologies
• Change control and Documentation
• Security of development environment

Testing

• Test plans – testing functionality – acceptance testing
• Control testing and test strategies
• Security of test environment and data