Risk Workshop

James Roth is available to consult with your audit department in a variety of ways, depending on your needs. Three examples that have been highly successful for clients are:

Control Model Implementation

Strategic Planning and Team Building

Instituting an Entity-Wide Business Risk Management Process

As author of the IIA research study, Control Model Implementation: Best Practices, Jim is one of the world's leading authorities on implementing COSO. He can help you by reviewing your current audit practices and organizational culture, suggesting the tools, techniques, and implementation strategies most likely to succeed, and helping you tailor them to your unique situation.

An alternative approach is a facilitated workshop. Using this approach, Jim will guide your audit staff through an assessment of your current situation and present possible tools, techniques, and strategies. Your department will emerge with a concrete action plan that everyone has shared in developing.

Is your audit department less than world-class? Do your audit customers have a negative perception of audit? Is morale in the department lower than you want it to be?

James Roth can lead your department through a transformational experience. The centerpiece will be a facilitated workshop, during which you and your staff will develop a shared vision for the future of the department and a concrete action plan to realize that vision.

Meaningless vision statements abound, yet most audit departments recognized as world class started with a meaningful, shared vision. What's the difference? It's all in how you go about it. To write the IIA seminar, Reinventing the Internal Audit Function, Jim researched the best and distilled their experiences into a simple, powerful process.

Jim will draw on this research, as well as on his personal experience as an audit manager who went through this process and as facilitator of the process for others. He will help you prepare the groundwork for the session, guide you through the session, and provide further support as you work to implement your strategic plan.

Would your organization benefit from a process in which all managers regularly (and honestly) assess the risks and controls in their areas, identify control weaknesses, develop corrective action plans, and report their results upward?

This might sound like an impossible dream, but Jim Roth has helped three organizations establish just such a process. The first, essential step is getting strong support from the CEO. Jim can then help you design the process, and he will conduct the one-day Business Risk Management Workshop(s) that teach the process to managers and motivate them to do it well. See Risk Management Workshop for a brief outline of the workshop.