This section of the website outlines the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements for our members and contains an online tool for assessing competencies and planning professional development.

Member requirements

All voting members of the IIA, except retired members, are required to plan their professional development, engage in development activity and review its impact. Further details can be found in the IIA’s Policy for members' CPD and the February 2009 Internal Auditing article Building Self Assurance

Compulsory

• Undertaking planned professional development activity

• Making an annual statement that activity has been undertaken

• Keeping evidence of activity for three years

Optional

• Documenting development online, available to all members

Guidance and support

A brief analysis of members' opinions on CPD, taken from the February 2011 survey, can be found here.

December 2010 article Getting the most out of CPD is now available here.

The information supplied below should be used by members to help them understand the options available to them in completing their member requirements.

• Policy for members' CPD 
• Guidance on the online CPD tool
• The competency statements in the online CPD tool
• The global competencies
• Mapping of the competencies to the global competencies
• Frequently asked questions

If you have any questions regarding CPD then please use the feedback form for telephone us on 020 7819 1916