Workshop on Risk Management and Corporate Control for Senior Executives

After attending this workshop, you will be able to:

• Understand underlying concepts of Internal Control and its relationship with Risk Management
• Tackle with challenges in implementing a Risk Management Framework and Risk-based internal audit process
• Review the current thinking and key concepts in Corporate Control as well as the role of audit committees in relation to Governance Codes
• Implement and evaluate world-class internal audit practice
• Identify forward-looking approaches and practices to integrate risk management and internal audit in organisations

Part I Internal Controls Frameworks

• Overview of theory, systems and Frameworks & the link with risk management
• Risk Management and Internal Control frameworks
• Role of Internal Audit & Assurance Services

Part II Internal Controls in Practice

• What happens when the internal control system fails & the Importance of Risk management
• Role of soft controls
• Maturity levels of risk management
• Ethics & culture
• Cost-effective approach to internal control
• Continuous improvement approach
• Internal Control Stakeholders

Part III Internal Audit & Board Control

• Understanding the Role of IA & the Audit Committee in ERM
• What is Modern Internal Auditing?
• Audit Planning & Risk-based roadmap
• Internal Audit & ERM
• Audit Committee & IA Quality Reviews (including the section C.2 of Code of Corporate Governance Practices and Associated Listing Rules in Hong Kong
• IA VS Risk Management Function

Dr Jean-Yves LE CORRE

• PhD (Business Administration), Bulacan State University
• MS (Management), University of London
• MA (Auditing & Consulting), ESCP Europe School of Management
• BS (Information Systems Engineering), University of Lorraine
• Certified Internal Auditor (CLA)

Dr Jean-Yves LE CORRE is a scholarly practitioner who holds a faculty position in the International
Business School at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University in Suzhou (China). Previously he held audit,
finance, and consulting positions in multinational corporations and provided education-related
services to executive education providers across East Asia. His research interests cover managerial
control models and performance management frameworks in multicultural global contexts.