Construction Internal Audit

Course Description

This program equips internal audit, risk, compliance, and assurance professionals with practical construction audit capabilities across the full capital project lifecycle. It covers governance, procurement, contracting, cost controls, variations and claims, quality/HSE, handover and commissioning, and construction-related fraud risks.

The course focuses on risk-based, actionable audits, with hands-on workshops, case simulations, and ready-to-use templates. Participants learn how to audit high-risk areas such as tendering, progress payments, change management, and contractor performance, while identifying leakage, inefficiencies, and integrity risks.

Designed to align with internal audit best practices, the program enables participants to deliver evidence-based findings, quantified impacts, and implementable recommendations that strengthen capital project oversight and value for money.

Who Should Attend

• Internal Audit professionals (Heads of Internal Audit, Audit Managers, Seniors, and Staff)

• Risk, Compliance, and Governance professionals

• Capital Projects, Engineering, and PMO assurance and oversight roles

• Finance professionals involved in capex control and project cost management

• Procurement and Contracts professionals involved in tendering and contract administration

• Professionals seeking to strengthen construction audit, assurance, and fraud risk capabilities across capital projects

Learning Outcomes

1. Build a construction audit universe and annual plan aligned to DHA capex priorities.
2. Perform risk-based construction audits across project lifecycle phases (initiation → close-out).
3. Evaluate the effectiveness of procurement, tendering, and contracting controls (including segregation of duties and governance gates).
4. Audit project cost controls: progress payments, BOQ measurement, retention, advances, bonds/insurance, and cost-to-complete.
5. Detect and test high-risk areas: variations, claims, EOTs, change control, and contractor performance.
6. Apply practical audit techniques: site walkdowns, sampling, substantive testing, analytics, and evidence packs.
7. Produce high-impact audit reports with root causes, quantification, and implementable actions.
8. Use red flags & fraud schemes specific to construction and fit-out projects (especially in healthcare environments).

NASBA Sponsor

Governance Dynamics is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.NASBARegistry.org.

Additional Information

Registration and Attendance Requirements: Click the “Inquire Now” button to register for the Certified Construction Internal Audit Program. In order to be awarded the full credits, you must respond to at least three polling or live questions every 50 minutes.

• Instructional Delivery Method: Group Internet Based
• Field of Study: Auditing
• Program Level: Intermediate
• Prerequisites: No mandatory prerequisites; however, basic knowledge of internal audit methodology and report writing is preferred.
• Advanced Preparation: None

For more information regarding refund, complaint, and program cancellation policies, please contact the training department at info@governance-dynamics.com.