CHAPTER 5

Business Processes
and Risks

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 Chapter 5 Learning Objectives

 Understand how organizations structure their activities to achieve

their objectives.
 Identify key business processes in an organization.
 Obtain an understanding of a given business process and be
able to document it.
 Understand basic types of business risks organizations face.
 Identify and assess the key risks to an organization’s objectives
and how they are linked to business processes.
 Develop an audit universe for an organization and determine an
annual internal audit plan based on key business risks.
 Understand how to use risk assessment techniques within
assurance engagements.
 Obtain an awareness of the new risks that arise when an
organization outsources some of its key processes.

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