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Skills Development Fund seminar

The Skills Development Fund Ltd which is a fully government owned company functioning under the Youth Affairs and Skills Development Ministry was established to enhance the knowledge and skills of employees in the public and private sectors and will be holding a seminar on effective internal auditing to be conducted at the Ministry Auditorium on August 20.

Personnel in the financial arena will be enlightened on all important aspects of internal auditing at this seminar.

There are over eighty people registered to attend the seminar. Starting from how an audit is conducted the detailed identification of high risk processes and how to build control systems that mitigate the risk, developing control based internal auditing recommendations that truly help the management to meet tactical and strategic objectives will be discussed in detail.

Best techniques to gain audit evidence and topics such as value of internal auditing, auditing standards, best practices in conducting audit field work, documenting and evaluating internal control systems audit evidence, audit sampling and mostly how to understand risk assessment would be among the sub topics discussed.

Seminars

A seminar on "Maximize your profits through best practices" organized by the Institute of Supply and Material Management will be held from 9.00am to 5.00 pm on August 20 at Hotel Janaki Colombo 5.

A seminar on "Managing supply chain efficiently" organized by the Institute of Supply and Material Management will be held from 9.00am to 12.00 noon at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce Auditorium today (19).