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• M25109 - Critical Internal Controls for Businesses: Which and Why (Online)

  • When
    17 Dec 2025
  •  
    09:15 - 12:30
  • Location
    Online Webinar

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  Registration Time: 09:00
  Sessions Time: 09:15 - 12:30  including a 15-minute break
  Speaker: Ms Ingrid Azzopardi
  Venue:   Online Webinar

  Participation Fees 
  MIA Members: €40.00
  Non-MIA Members: €75.00
  Retired Members: €20.00
  Students: €30.00

  *Group bookings for 3 or more participants available.

  BACKGROUND INFORMATION

  Critical internal controls are essential for ensuring the integrity, efficiency, and reliability of an entity's operations and financial reporting. The session will focus on these critical internal controls and why they are required.
  Benefits of a strong internal control system facilitates an entity’s effective and efficient operation, by enabling it to respond appropriately to significant strategic, financial, operational and other risks to achieve its objectives. An effective system of internal controls helps a business entity ensure the quality of internal and external reporting. Effective internal controls also help ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, as well as internal policies with respect to the conduct of the business.

  SPECIFIC TOPICS TO BE COVERED DURING THE SESSION

  The session will look at:

  • the components of internal control,

  • different types of internal controls

  • will focus on those internal controls considered as critical

  
  

  Why is the session of relevance to our members?

  Critical internal controls are the backbone of any successful business entity. Collectively they help ensure that a business entity operates effectively, remains compliant with regulations, protects its assets, and maintains the integrity of its financial reporting, whilst achieving its objectives.

  Target Audience

  Internal Auditors, people in management, students, board members and anyone who is interested in obtaining a better understanding on internal controls.

  Speaker's Profile

  Ingrid Azzopardi heads the Internal Audit Function at Tumas Group, having led GO’s Internal Audit Unit for over 30 years. She has a Master in Accountancy, holds a CPA Warrant and the Practising Certificate in Auditing. and is also a Chartered Director. She sits on the Board of Bank of Valletta and has held board positions at the Housing Authority, Teatru Manoel, the Mediterranean Conference Centre, HSBC Life Assurance Company and HSBC Bank, Malta. At the latter two entities as an Independent Non-Executive Director she also chaired the Audit and Risk Committees. She is a Fellow of the Malta Institute of Accountants and the UK Institute of Directors. Ms. Azzopardi is a founding member of the Malta Forum for Internal Auditors, now the IIA Malta Chapter, where she held the posts of Vice Chair and Chair of the mentioned Forum. Ms. Azzopardi is currently the Deputy Chair of the Board of Administrators of the Malta ESG Alliance (MESGA). At an international level Ms. Azzopardi was actively involved on the Executive Committee of the Forum for the Irregular International Network Access (FIINA) and chaired the Interconnect Committee of the Forum. Ms. Azzopardi has presented at several conferences held locally and abroad on internal audit, revenue assurance, fraud and ESG.

  EVeNT CPE COMPETENCies

  
  

  3  Core

  
  

  WEBINARS TERMS AND CONDITIONS

  Terms and conditions  apply

  
  

  DISCLAIMER

  By Registering and/or Booking for this event, you agree that MIA will collect your information which will be using it in accordance with its Privacy Notice available at the following link.

  Please note that all webinars are recorded by the MIA. Such recordings will be retained by the MIA for internal use.

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• M26005 - Lean Auditing (Online)

  • When
    4 Feb 2026
  •  
    13:30 - 16:45
  • Location
    Online Webinar

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  Registration Time: 13:15
  Sessions Time: 13:30 - 16:45  including a 15-minute break
  Speaker: Ms Ingrid Azzopardi
  Venue:   Online Webinar

  Participation Fees 
  MIA Members: €40.00
  Non-MIA Members: €75.00
  Retired Members: €20.00
  Students: €30.00

  *Group bookings for 3 or more participants available.

  BACKGROUND INFORMATION

  Internal audit functions are increasingly expected to do more with less. Most Internal Audit Functions face the problem of resources either because the skill set is hard to find or due to constraints in budgets. This session explores how an Internal Audit Function can address the limitation of available resources by adopting lean and agile methodologies in an effort to become more efficient and effective. This can be done by focusing on what matters to continuously improve the value added which an Internal Audit Function can contribute to an organisation.

  SPECIFIC TOPICS TO BE COVERED DURING THE SESSION

  • An Introduction to Lean Auditing
  • Background Information
  • Key Principles
  • Lean Auditing in Practice
  • The Different Audit stages
  • Benefits to Reap

  Why is the session of relevance to our members?

  Attendees will discover how by applying lean and agile practices, Internal Audit Functions can become more impactful. This can be done by changes in mindset and the way work is performed.

  Target Audience

  Heads of Internal Audits, Internal Auditors, Audit Committee Members, Management interested in audit efficiency, Risk Officers and Students.
  

  Speaker's Profile

  Ingrid Azzopardi heads the Internal Audit Function at Tumas Group, having led GO’s Internal Audit Unit for over 30 years. She has a Master in Accountancy, holds a CPA Warrant and the Practising Certificate in Auditing. and is also a Chartered Director. She sits on the Board of Bank of Valletta and has held board positions at the Housing Authority, Teatru Manoel, the Mediterranean Conference Centre, HSBC Life Assurance Company and HSBC Bank, Malta. At the latter two entities as an Independent Non-Executive Director she also chaired the Audit and Risk Committees. She is a Fellow of the Malta Institute of Accountants and the UK Institute of Directors. Ms. Azzopardi is a founding member of the Malta Forum for Internal Auditors, now the IIA Malta Chapter, where she held the posts of Vice Chair and Chair of the mentioned Forum. Ms. Azzopardi is currently the Deputy Chair of the Board of Administrators of the Malta ESG Alliance (MESGA). At an international level Ms. Azzopardi was actively involved on the Executive Committee of the Forum for the Irregular International Network Access (FIINA) and chaired the Interconnect Committee of the Forum. Ms. Azzopardi has presented at several conferences held locally and abroad on internal audit, revenue assurance, fraud and ESG.

  EVeNT CPE COMPETENCies

  
  

  3  Core

  
  

  WEBINARS TERMS AND CONDITIONS

  Terms and conditions  apply

  
  

  DISCLAIMER

  By Registering and/or Booking for this event, you agree that MIA will collect your information which will be using it in accordance with its Privacy Notice available at the following link.

  Please note that all webinars are recorded by the MIA. Such recordings will be retained by the MIA for internal use.

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• M26015 - Adapting Ethical and Technical Standards for better Audit Quality and Transparency (Online)

  • When
    24 Feb 2026
  •  
    13:30 - 16:45
  • Location
    Online Webinar

  Register

  Registration Time: 13:15
  Session Time: 13:30- 16:45  including a 15-minute break
  Speaker: Mr Mario P Galea
  Venue:   Online Webinar

  Participation Fees 
  MIA Members: €40.00

  Non-MIA Members: €75.00

  Retired Members: €20.00

  Students: €30.00

  *Group bookings for 3 or more participants available.

  BACKGROUND INFORMATION

  Nobody owes auditing a permanent living into eternity. The only safeguard for the permanence of our profession lies within ourselves — in the partnership between standard setters and practitioners. Together, these two forces remain our best hope for ensuring that auditing continues to serve the public interest with integrity and purpose. Yet, that permanence is continuously threatened — not by external pressures alone, but by our own commissions and omissions. When auditors fail to lend credibility to the stewardship of management, it is clients, stakeholders, shareholders, and the public at large who suffer first.
  Compliance with ethical and technical standards is not up for debate — it is the foundation of our license to operate. But business, economies, science, and technology have transformed the world in ways that our traditional standards can no longer fully accommodate. Both the standards themselves and we, as practitioners, must adapt and innovate if we are to remain relevant. We can no longer rely on inherited practices or the comfort of perceived superiority that may have developed over more than a century of existence. The reality is stark: we either change, or we risk disappearance.
  The auditing profession must now confront and integrate the implications of technology, climate change, artificial intelligence, sustainability, governance, social trends, education, and evolving financial structures. Virtual transactions and digital ecosystems are redefining the very notion of assurance. Unless we adapt — ethically, technically, and conceptually — we risk becoming orthodox in a world that demands meaning, relevance, and trust.

  SPECIFIC TOPICS TO BE COVERED DURING THE SESSION

  • The implications of technology, climate change

  • Artificial intelligence

  • Sustainability

  • Governance

  • Social trends

  • Education

  • Evolving financial structures, virtual transactions and digital ecosystems, the conceptual framework, the code of ethics, materially impacted standards such as sampling.

  Why is the session of relevance to our members?

  Both members and non-members of the Institute are to benefit from attending this session which provides a unique opportunity to further close the ever-present expectation gap, exacerbated by the pace of development of the business world compared to that of the auditing profession.

  Target Audience

  The session is of value to practitioners and students of auditing. It is also of interest to Chief Financial Officers, Chief Executive Officers and business people who have an interest in the service of auditing and assurance.

  Speaker's Profile

  A certified public accountant holding a warrant to practice both as an accountant and as an auditor.
  Currently practising as a business advisor providing governance oversight and advisory services to
  businesses and corporations. Serves as an independent non-executive director on the boards and
  audit committees of various listed and licenced companies in the financial and commercial sectors
  including banks, insurance and investment companies. Mentor and advisor to family businesses.
  Founder, managing partner and chairman of accountancy and audit firm Ernst & Young in Malta until
  retirement in 2012. Specialised in auditing and assurance which he has practiced for over 35 years in
  Malta and abroad. Auditing experience spans over several sectors including banks, insurance and
  investment companies. Lectured in auditing, assurance and professional and business ethics and led
  several training courses. Speaker at various business and professional conferences in Malta and
  abroad. Speaker and producer of various webinars related to auditing, corporate governance and
  ethics. Assisted businesses in several areas particularly relating to governance, accounting and
  systems of control. Served as President of the Malta Institute of Accountants and for many years
  formed part of the Accountancy Board which is the accountancy profession regulator in Malta.
  Served on various professional committees in Malta and abroad such as the council of the
  Federation des Experts Comptables (FEE) in Brussels (now Accountancy Europe). Member of the
  Ethics committee of the Malta Institute of Accountants in Malta

  EVeNT CPE COMPETENCies

  
  

  3  Core

  
  

  WEBINARS TERMS AND CONDITIONS

  Terms and conditions  apply

  
  

  DISCLAIMER

  By Registering and/or Booking for this event, you agree that MIA will collect your information which will be using it in accordance with its Privacy Notice available at the following link.

  Please note that all webinars are recorded by the MIA. Such recordings will be retained by the MIA for internal use.

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