Being a Courageous Internal Auditor
This course explores the concept of professional courage, including key ideas, common challenges, insights from practitioners, and practical tips to apply in your work.
Ethics and ethical challenges have become increasingly prominent across business, the public sector, charities and the internal audit profession.
A key aspect of this is professional courage—an essential quality for internal auditors, formally recognised in the Global Internal Audit Standards and widely regarded as fundamental to effective practice.
Whatever your role, demonstrating professional courage is critical to supporting stakeholders, upholding standards and serving the wider public interest.
This course explores the concept of professional courage, including key ideas, common challenges, insights from practitioners, and practical tips to apply in your work.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe what the Global Internal Audit Standards say about professional courage.
- Discuss why professional courage is critical to your role as an internal auditor.
- Reflect on the insights of other internal auditors on what professional courage means in practice and to them.
- Understand situations that may challenge our professional courage at different stages in our internal audit careers.
- Consider how best to approach and address these situations and be professionally courageous.
The course comprises one module and a quiz. After you have completed these two components, including achieving 100% on the quiz, you will be able to download your certificate of completion.
You have 24 weeks to complete the course; however, it shouldn’t take you more than one hour to do so.
The course is online so you will need access to an internet-enabled device. The material is responsive and will display well on most devices.
The material is primarily text-based and can be accessed using screen readers and other assistive technologies.
We provide alternative text for instructional graphics to ensure key information is available to all learners. Where interactive activities may present accessibility challenges, suitable alternatives are included.
Internal Auditing Competencies – International Professional Practices Framework
Internal Auditing Competencies – Ethics and Professionalism
Internal Auditing Competencies – Reporting Results
1 CPE points