Program design and contents
Business Process Control
The Advanced Program for Business Process Control teaches you how to effectively and efficiently analyze various businesses and organizations. Once you have finished this program, you can identify an organization’s issues using top-down analysis. Discover how to break down processes and identify the risks contained in those process steps. And how to use this information to propose control objectives. Thanks to the knowledge you have gained, you can assess internal risk control systems and rapidly comprehend an organization’s primary processes and controls.
Focus on automated business processes
This program focuses mainly on the design and control of (extensively) automated business processes at data-driven organizations. That means you will learn to analyze the IT landscape. Which systems are there and how are they related? Does the business make its own products, or only trade in them? Which operational and control risks does data storage involve?
Practice-driven learning
Besides theoretical explanations, the program also spends plenty of time on cases – with extensive input from participants. These cases focus on setting up effective governance, controls and accountability for an internal organization. Every case also considers ICT’s impact on the design of the administrative organization and internal controls (AO/IC). This includes special attention to factors such as controllability, reliability, justifiability and confidentiality.
Group assignments
Collaboration is always important, including in process control. For this reason, all Business Process Control homework cases are assigned as group projects. The program concludes with a group paper describing a real-life case study. This consists of both a written component and an oral defense.
Time investment and result
The Advanced Program for Business Process Control can easily be combined with your work and personal life. The course load is 12–15 hours a week, including 13 lecture days.
On completion of this Advanced Program you will receive a TIAS Certificate of Participation.
PE-points
Several elements of the program can be used to register for PE points. The PE point system is currently undergoing some changes. For further information, please feel free to contact our Program Adviser.
A Word from our Academic Director
“While all kinds of organizations exist, they can be divided into 15 basic types. Each type of organization does its best to make a profit and manage risks in its own way. This program teaches participants how to rapidly analyze the most important processes and risks at a company. Practical skills and theoretical knowledge are of equal importance when it comes to distinguishing between different types of organizations. That is why this program revolves around case studies. We help participants to build up an ‘auditing sixth sense’ which they can use to analyze and advise organizations. It’s a beautiful thing to see that happen for participants.”
Drs. Wim Pauw RE CISA CRISC
