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Keith
Wade MA CPFA PIIA FIIA MIRM
As well as running Keith
Wade Consulting, Keith is Founder and Training and Development Director
of CATS International (now a division of Kingdom Management Limited).
Keith has over 30 years'
experience world-wide in internal audit as practitioner, academic,
professional adviser, lecturer, consultant and trainer, and has
organised several top level conferences in addition to running courses
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His consultancy
work includes advising individuals, organisations and governments on developing
the internal audit function, analysing training needs, introducing standards,
improving audit practices, and working with managers to help establish
appropriate frameworks of risk management and control.
Keith is a qualified
accountant and is recognised as both a leading authority on audit matters
and a skilled and enthusiastic trainer, working to the highest standards
of quality and professionalism. Over the years he has guided hundreds
of auditors, accountants and managers at all levels, counselled scores
of students, organised countless courses, seminars and conferences ranging
from local to international events, pioneered audit thinking, worked closely
with various professional bodies in developing the audit function, helped
introduce best audit practice in numerous organisations – and inspired
many with the joys, opportunities and value of auditing.
Author of several
publications, he has presented numerous papers and conducted extensive
research. Way back in the seventies and eighties he was instrumental in
the development of the risk-based systems approach to internal audit and
has encouraged many to extend the scope and boundaries of audit work beyond
the traditional and mundane. He is co-author of the definitive text “Control
Self-Assessment”, first published by Wiley in April 1999.
His international
experience is considerable. Worldwide, Keith has worked with many professional,
academic, government, industry and other bodies in drafting audit standards,
preparing guidance and seeking to enhance the discipline and practice
of internal audit. In recent years he has undertaken assignments in Africa,
the Caribbean, the Gulf region, India, China and South East Asia, as well
as nearer home in UK, Ireland and most other parts of Western, Central
and Eastern Europe.
Keith works closely
with international bodies, other training providers and consultancies
in developing and delivering seminars and courses; partners include UK
Crown Agents, IIA chapters and local companies around the world.
He has strong
links with the professional bodies. Before founding CATS he was Secretary
of CIPFA's Audit Panel, and he devised CIPFA's original audit qualification
schemes. He has been closely involved with the IIA in many capacities:
in 1996 he was elected a Fellow of the UK and Ireland Institute in recognition
of his contribution to the internal audit profession. In 2006 he became
a Member of the Institute of Risk Management.
Recent activities: selectively they include
Running a risk
management workshop for Dubai International Airport
Designing, overseeing
and assisting in the delivery of training of 2000 government auditors
in Poland
Helping to establish
a government internal audit service and providing associated training
in various other European countries, including Latvia, Czech Republic,
Croatia, Romania and Gibraltar
Involvement for the past 12 years in running numerous audit courses in
Dubai and elsewhere in the Gulf with IIR and in-house
Designing and delivering courses on Risk Management and Risk-Based Auditing
in Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Mumbai, UAE, Nairobi, Istanbul, Jordan, Qatar
and Iceland as well as in various locations in UK.
Providing internal audit training for financial institutions in various
Caribbean islands, Lebanon, Rwanda, and London
Delivering procurement audit training in Malawi
Working with UK NHS audit bodies to develop standards and increase competence
Advising various parties on the relationships between internal audit and
risk management
Designing and delivering training on Public Sector Audit at various locations
in the Caribbean
Providing exclusive modular internal audit training for government departments
in Ireland over a continuous period of 12 years, accredited by CIPFA
Providing a similar programme , based on 6 inter-linked courses, assessed
assignments and a project, for other sectors, including local government
in UK
Designing a regulatory regime for the control of the oil industry
Designing and helping deliver annual UK-based audit and control courses
for overseas officials
Organisation of a series of seminars for IIA on the interpretation and
implementation of the Standards.
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