Online training courses

Enhance your internal audit skills with the Chartered IIA’s series of short online training courses, taken at your own pace, whenever, wherever you are.


Why take our online training courses?


  • Expand your knowledge and increase your internal auditing prowess
  • Learn in bitesize chunks at your own pace
  • Support your professional development and gain valuable CPE points

Important information


Access to our course content will be made available for 90 days only from the date of purchase. After successfully completing a course, you’ll be able to download the relevant course summary to keep and refer to in the future. You will also receive a CPE certificate for your records.

Should you have any difficulties in booking an online training course, please log off the website and only log on when prompted.

After booking a course, please take the following steps to access it:

  • Log into iia.org.uk and go to https://www.iia.org.uk/students/study-system/
  • Click on the blue button that says ‘Access the study system here’ to access your personalised study system dashboard where you will see the course(s) you have purchased.  
  • If it is your first time using the study system, you will need to enter your email address on your profile page to activate access. 

Essential CPE required from ethics-based courses


All certified members are required to complete two CPE hours annually which are focused on the subject of ethics. We have a number of online training courses which will enable you to meet this requirement. These are follows:
  • Professional ethics for internal audit
  • Ethical dilemmas in internal audit
  • Conflict of interest
  • Confidentiality and the internal auditor
  • Understanding the International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF)

Course selection


We only accept credit or debit card payments for individual bookings for online training courses, we cannot accept purchase order bookings.

If you have a group booking please contact trainingsl@iia org.uk


ETHICS TRAINING

Understanding the International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF)

The IPPF is fundamental to your role as an internal auditor. This course gives you a grounding in the framework.

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Fraud risk and the role of internal audit 

Opportunities for fraud have increased. More than ever, boards and internal audit functions must be proactive in their approach to managing fraud risk. This course introduces you to key concepts pertaining to fraud risk management and examines the role of internal audit.

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Managing internal audit talent

All managers need to build effective teams with the right mix of talent to meet the organisation’s needs and challenges. This course provides an overview of the principles of building a team.

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Articulating risks and controls

An online course helping internal auditors distinguish between and define risks, risk impacts, controls, and control failures in the context of an organisation. 

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  ETHICS TRAINING

Professional ethics for internal auditors

Ethics, ethical dilemmas and ethical challenges have been much discussed over the last decade, in business circles, the public sector and in charities too, as well as in the internal audit profession.

An ethical focus in all we do as internal auditors - and regular reminders of this - is important for us all, given how central this subject is to us, our role, our profession and, ultimately, our organisations.

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Accounting and finance: risks and controls

Organisations need functions and systems to receive, manage and distribute funds. This course provides an overview of the purposes of these functions and systems, and the common risks associated with them.

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Basics of sustainable supply chain management

This course will consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks associated with supply chains. You will consider the steps an organisation will take to build a sustainable supply chain and your role as an internal auditor.

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ETHICS TRAINING

Conflict of Interest

This interactive, scenario-based course covers this vital subject. Helping you to maintain high ethical standards in your day-to-day internal audit work by helping you recognise and avoid actual - or potential - conflicts of interest.

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ETHICS TRAINING

Ethical dilemmas in internal audit work

A course exploring ethical focus and the steps needed to handle ethically challenging situations.

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Harness your voice to achieve results that matter

The course will focus on the voice and its various components, as well as explore the choice and use of language.

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Introduction to negotiation

As an internal auditor you negotiate throughout the engagement process. In this course we determine what negotiation is and provide frameworks and techniques for carrying out effective negotiations ultimately achieving joint outcomes that all parties will make happen.  

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Deliver audit insights with macroeconomics

During this course you will learn about economic cycles, key macroeconomic indicators, and the interplay between them.

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ETHICS TRAINING

Confidentiality and the internal auditor

The course provides an overview of the mandatory requirements for internal auditors with regard to confidentiality that are included in the International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF). 

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Quality in internal audit

This course explores what quality means for internal audit, and how an internal audit function might embed quality in its systems and processes.

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Reviewing liquidity risk 

This course explains common causes of liquidity risks, and how you can use ratios to identify potential areas of risk.

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Critical and creative thinking

This course will look at how critical and creative thinking can help internal auditors gather and interpret information more effectively during fieldwork.

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Cultural competency and humility

This course aims to support internal auditors to be aware of their cultural views and the implications these can have on their working relationships with others from different cultures.

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ETHICS TRAINING

Recognising and managing unconscious bias

This course will introduce you to unconscious biases, what they are and what you can do about them.

 

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ETHICS TRAINING

Conform to the Code of Ethics – the HIA view

This course will provide you with the opportunity to reflect on the range of policies and procedures implemented by your internal audit activity to help ensure that the whole team conforms with the Code of Ethics.

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Elements of a speak up framework

Speaking up arrangements, more traditionally referred to as whistleblowing, are a key part of the governance of organisations. When implemented in an effective manner, they can facilitate the reporting of a broad range of wrongdoing that might otherwise remain undetected. The formal arrangements are likely to be more effective if they are supported by a culture that encourages speaking up.

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