Auditing Enterprise Resource Planning ERP Systems Training Course

The , offered by the Geneva Institute of Business Management, provides organisations with a structured approach to auditing integrated enterprise platforms that support finance, procurement, sales, inventory, human resources, operations, and reporting. As ERP systems become increasingly important to organisational governance and decision-making, effective auditing requires a thorough understanding of technology controls, business processes, access governance, data integrity, system configuration, and operational risks.

This corporate training course develops participants' capabilities to assess ERP environments from internal audit, risk management, compliance, and control assurance perspectives. It explores how auditors can evaluate system reliability, financial information, business process efficiency, segregation of duties, user access, and management reporting.

The programme covers essential ERP auditing methodologies, including audit planning, scope definition, risk identification, control testing, evidence collection, exception assessment, and reporting audit findings. Key areas include user privileges, privileged accounts, role design, access reviews, change management, master data controls, automated processes, system interfaces, audit trails, and system-generated reports.

A dedicated component focuses on SAP and Oracle controls testing, helping participants understand how to review application controls, access permissions, system configurations, automated workflows, and supporting business processes. The course also addresses integrated module audits, examining how transactions flow across procurement, inventory, finance, sales, projects, and human resources. This enables auditors to identify control weaknesses that may affect multiple business functions.

Designed for internal auditors, IT auditors, compliance professionals, risk specialists, financial controllers, and ERP governance managers, the programme supports stronger audit practices across technology-driven corporate environments.

The Auditing Enterprise Resource Planning ERP Systems Training Course is part of the broader category, which provides professional development opportunities in audit methodologies, organisational controls, risk assessment, and compliance. Through this programme, the Geneva Institute of Business Management supports organisations in strengthening ERP governance, improving control assurance, and maintaining the reliability of integrated enterprise systems.

The Auditing Enterprise Resource Planning ERP Systems Training Course aims to strengthen organisational capability in evaluating ERP-related risks and controls. By completing the programme, participants will be able to:

Develop a structured approach for planning and executing ERP audits based on organisational risk, system criticality, regulatory requirements, business processes, and control objectives. Participants will understand how to define audit scope and identify the ERP components that require detailed examination.

Evaluate governance arrangements surrounding ERP systems, including ownership, accountability, policies, control responsibilities, system administration, risk management, and oversight. The objective is to determine whether ERP governance supports effective internal control and operational accountability.

Examine user access, security roles, privileged accounts, approval structures, inactive accounts, excessive privileges, and segregation of duties. Participants will understand how to identify access risks that could enable unauthorised transactions, inappropriate changes, or conflicts between incompatible responsibilities.

Develop practical approaches for SAP/Oracle controls testing covering application controls, access management, configuration, automated workflows, transaction processing, change management, and system-generated information. The objective is to provide auditors with a consistent methodology for assessing controls within major ERP environments.

Assess how ERP modules interact across business functions and identify control dependencies between processes. Participants will examine integrated module audits involving finance, procurement, sales, inventory, human resources, projects, and other operational areas.

Review controls designed to protect the accuracy, completeness, consistency, and reliability of ERP data. Participants will consider master data, transaction data, interfaces, automated calculations, reconciliations, system reports, and data validation mechanisms.

Assess controls governing system changes, configuration changes, customisations, patches, upgrades, and emergency modifications. The course focuses on determining whether changes are properly authorised, tested, documented, approved, and migrated into production environments.

Improve the quality of ERP audit evidence by identifying relevant system records, access reports, transaction logs, configuration information, workflow evidence, exception reports, and supporting documentation. Participants will develop a disciplined approach to documenting audit procedures and conclusions.

Recognise risks associated with inappropriate access, weak segregation of duties, inadequate change controls, unreliable interfaces, poor master data management, ineffective automated controls, and insufficient monitoring.

Develop clear and business-focused audit findings that communicate control deficiencies, risk implications, root causes, and appropriate management actions. The objective is to help management understand how ERP control weaknesses can affect financial reporting, operational performance, compliance, and business continuity.

The Auditing Enterprise Resource Planning ERP Systems Training Course is intended for professionals responsible for evaluating, managing, monitoring, or improving ERP-related controls within corporate and institutional environments.

Internal audit professionals can use the programme to strengthen their approach to ERP risk assessment, audit planning, control testing, evidence collection, and reporting. The course is particularly relevant to auditors responsible for technology-enabled business processes.

IT auditors can develop a broader understanding of application controls, ERP configurations, access governance, system interfaces, change management, and technology-related risks affecting enterprise operations.

Risk managers and compliance specialists can use the course to assess how ERP controls support organisational policies, regulatory requirements, governance frameworks, and risk management objectives.

Financial controllers, accounting professionals, and internal control specialists can benefit from understanding how ERP configurations and automated controls affect transaction processing, financial information, reconciliations, reporting, and financial governance.

ERP managers and system administrators can gain an audit-focused perspective on access management, configuration, change controls, system security, data integrity, and operational governance.

Professionals responsible for technology governance, information security, user administration, and control assurance can strengthen their ability to identify and address ERP-related control risks.

Audit leaders and managers can use the programme to improve ERP audit planning, resource allocation, control evaluation, audit supervision, and communication with senior management.

Project managers, consultants, business process owners, and professionals involved in ERP implementations, upgrades, or transformation initiatives can benefit from understanding the control requirements that should be considered throughout the ERP lifecycle.

This module establishes the foundation for auditing ERP systems within complex organisational environments. It examines the role of ERP platforms in business operations and explains why integrated systems require coordinated audit approaches.

Key areas include ERP architecture, business process integration, audit objectives, ERP risk categories, control environments, system dependencies, audit scope, risk-based planning, and critical business processes.

Participants will examine how ERP risks can affect financial information, operational processes, compliance, reporting, data security, and business continuity.

This module focuses on the governance structures surrounding enterprise systems. It examines system ownership, accountability, policies, procedures, control responsibilities, risk assessment, monitoring, and management oversight.

The module also considers how auditors can map business objectives to ERP risks and corresponding controls. Emphasis is placed on identifying critical control points and establishing an audit universe for ERP-related activities.

System access is a critical component of ERP control assurance. This module provides a structured approach to conducting a system access review across users, roles, privileges, and administrative accounts.

Topics include user provisioning, user termination, role assignments, privileged access, access approvals, password-related controls, inactive users, role conflicts, segregation of duties, emergency access, and periodic access certification.

Participants will examine how access-related exceptions should be investigated and documented and how inappropriate privileges can create opportunities for unauthorised transactions or unauthorised changes.

This module focuses specifically on SAP/Oracle controls testing and the audit considerations associated with large-scale ERP platforms.

Participants will examine application controls, configuration controls, automated approvals, transaction validation, role-based access, workflow controls, audit trails, system parameters, interfaces, and change management.

The module also considers how auditors can design control tests that provide meaningful evidence rather than relying solely on system configuration or management representations.

ERP systems connect multiple business functions, making integrated module audits essential for identifying cross-functional risks.

This module examines relationships between finance, procurement, accounts payable, sales, inventory, human resources, projects, assets, and other operational modules. Participants will consider how transactions move across modules and how control failures in one process can influence another.

The module also addresses reconciliations between modules, interface controls, automated postings, workflow dependencies, and end-to-end transaction testing.

Master data influences the quality of ERP transactions and reports. This module examines controls over vendors, customers, employees, materials, accounts, pricing information, banking information, and other critical master data.

Participants will assess authorisation, validation, duplicate records, data changes, approval workflows, periodic reviews, and monitoring controls.

The module also addresses completeness, accuracy, consistency, and reliability of ERP data and the audit evidence required to support conclusions.

This module addresses automated controls embedded within ERP applications. It considers automated approvals, validation rules, tolerance limits, workflow controls, system calculations, posting restrictions, exception handling, and automated reconciliations.

Participants will learn how to identify key automated controls and determine appropriate procedures for testing whether those controls operate as intended.

ERP environments frequently undergo configuration changes, upgrades, patches, customisation, and process modifications. This module examines controls designed to manage those changes.

Topics include change requests, approval processes, testing, segregation of development and production responsibilities, emergency changes, migration controls, documentation, version management, and post-implementation review.

The audit focus is on determining whether system changes are authorised, appropriately tested, traceable, and aligned with business requirements.

ERP platforms often exchange information with external applications, databases, payment systems, reporting tools, and other corporate technologies. This module examines interface controls and risks associated with data transfers.

Participants will review interface completeness, accuracy, error handling, reconciliation, monitoring, system-generated reports, audit trails, logs, and exception information.

The module also addresses the reliability of ERP reports used as audit evidence and management information.

This module brings together financial and operational control considerations across major ERP processes.

Areas include procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, inventory management, fixed assets, payroll-related processes, expense management, general ledger processing, budgeting, reporting, and reconciliations.

Participants will assess how ERP controls support transaction accuracy, authorisation, completeness, segregation of duties, financial reporting, and operational accountability.

This module focuses on practical audit execution. Participants will examine risk and control matrices, walkthroughs, sampling approaches, system evidence, configuration evidence, transaction testing, exception analysis, and audit documentation.

The programme emphasises maintaining an evidence trail that clearly connects identified risks, control objectives, audit procedures, findings, and conclusions.

The final module focuses on communicating ERP audit results to management and relevant stakeholders.

Participants will examine how to structure findings around the condition, risk, root cause, impact, and agreed management action. The module also addresses prioritisation of corrective actions, remediation tracking, management responses, follow-up reviews, and continuous control improvement.

The focus remains on producing concise, evidence-based reporting that enables management to understand ERP control weaknesses and take appropriate corrective action.

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