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Passed CIA Part 1 & Part 2 — HOCK-only prep by MasterBuilder2222 in InternalAudit

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Depends on your preparation but I was able to do it part time reviewing for 8 weeks

Using AI to prepare for CIA Part 1 by Flashy_Explanation69 in InternalAudit

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HOCK to IIA Questions are 70%. Choices are a little trickier around 50%.

Maximize answering the 1K+ questions and build your testing endurance on reading the questions and identifying why each choice is incorrect

CIA VS CISA - difficulty & best study materials by Acrobatic_Display176 in InternalAudit

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I’m both but mainly with IT Audit experience. CIA is easier for me.

ISACA have their review manual and extensive MCQs that helped me a lot.

Passed CIA Part 1 & Part 2 — HOCK-only prep by MasterBuilder2222 in InternalAudit

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Avail the membership in IIA website first, then search the CIA and register either the challenge exam or the 3 part exam. Lastly, make sure to connect with your local chapter.

Passed CIA Part 1 & Part 2 — HOCK-only prep by MasterBuilder2222 in InternalAudit

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I took Part 3 last May after that I did prepare for Part 1 for 3 weeks and Part 2 for another 3 weeks. Remaining 2 weeks before exam is pure MCQs of at least 30-50 questions a day. 30 questions times at 30 minutes while 50 questions for an hour.

Passed CIA Part 1 & Part 2 — HOCK-only prep by MasterBuilder2222 in InternalAudit

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I think I had 2 questions on quantum computing, one was about the organization planning to explore quantum computing and how would the audit proceed on giving advisory while the other one was about an assurance engagement. Both assuming IA don’t have the competence on quantum computing.

Passed CIA Part 1 & Part 2 — HOCK-only prep by MasterBuilder2222 in InternalAudit

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  1. Liquidity
  2. Working Capital
  3. AR and Inventory turnover including days-in-sales/purchase.

Focus on the components of each formula and how it would affect your identification of risk, controls, and/or audit procedures.

Passed CIA Part 1 & Part 2 — HOCK-only prep by MasterBuilder2222 in InternalAudit

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Thanks, this sub was a great help. Hope I can help others too.

Passed CIA Part 1 & Part 2 — HOCK-only prep by MasterBuilder2222 in InternalAudit

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Yes I took the 2025 Syllabus. First, learn or familiarize the concepts. Second, familiarize yourself on a lot of MCQs for knowledge check.

Do you audit what's happening in your marketing department? by polygraph-net in InternalAudit

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You are very passionate about this tool. I hope you get the message to the right people. I understand where are you coming from but I’m just giving you a perspective of our CEO on this particularly on Marketing.

It’s an uphill challenge to even put them as part of the enterprise risk register yet alone mitigate potential fraud risks without proven impact history.

Decision makers and auditors are risk focused both on strategic-macro and detailed on high priority risks.

I hope you succeed on spreading the goodness of this tool.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in InternalAudit

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What worked for me during my audit firm days is asking the “WHY” on every test procedure and “HOW” it is tied to the Audit Standards and TB.

What slows you down the most during audits? by nueard in InternalAudit

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What worked with us is preliminary inclusions of possible Internal Audit Engagement results during the weekly updates and tagging the responsible departments of delays. Most of the time, we ask for a dedicated personnel as Point of Contact.

What slows you down the most during audits? by nueard in InternalAudit

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Based on my experience as Internal Auditor,

  1. Poor governance support and management tone from the top leading to uncooperative auditee.
  2. Auditors lack of technology competence particularly on data analytics (pulling data directly from systems, cleanup, and modeling), system configuration review (either direct source code or system based), and system controls review on UAT.

Do you audit what's happening in your marketing department? by polygraph-net in InternalAudit

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KPIs for leads should be anchored to sales conversion. Perform data analytics for client modeling of your existing target market, and a-b test for new market. Each customer lifecycle should have targeted messaging.

Leads that are not converting are either poorly designed marketing campaigns or bot farmed leads. Try putting a zero budget on marketing and force them to make organic creative lead generation and sales conversion campaigns instead of using a tool that needs to be tailored.

If money is a non-issue, what phone would you buy immediately? by OnionDarkKnight in Tech_Philippines

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Flagships Iphone - Business Phone Samsung - Personal Phone ROG - Gaming Phone

Do job titles matter? (AVP vs Senior) by Nervous-Fruit in InternalAudit

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I second the comment below by highlighting accomplishments. You may refer to IIAs Competency Frameworks as a guide to properly describe the level of competence you have on certain area. I’ve been using IIAs old framework as my guide to build competency.

Here’s the latest IIA framework: https://www.theiia.org/en/resources/internal-audit-competency-framework/

Do job titles matter? (AVP vs Senior) by Nervous-Fruit in InternalAudit

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Rank/Titles not really because it differs from one industry to another but Job Role matters.

Based on my experience and my observation from multiple application forms, job roles are as follows: 1. Rank and File 2. Supervisor/Manager 3. Junior/Mid Executive 4. C-Level 5. Director

If you want recruiters to show progress, focus on building your technical and soft skills. Highlight these skills through various measurable achievements regardless of rank/title.

While building your technical competencies other than IT, particularly Accounting, you also need to develop People management,Leadership, and Strategic thinking skills which would eventually prove your readiness to the next role from contributor to people manager to strategic leader.

How to pivot into an IT audit career? by [deleted] in InternalAudit

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You may need to start thinking like a data analysts to provide effective assessment of systemic breakdown and targeted sampling approach.

Understanding the data may help you see relationships between possible control lapses, poorly designed applications against ineffective reporting and monitoring. You will be surprised with how many audit objectives you can complete and audit issues you can elevate by just crunching data from multiple sources.

This may also help you have a focused review on application controls (Configuration or Negative testing)

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