Become the Person Who Can Say Whether a Control Works

When you assess a control with a clear method behind you, your conclusions carry weight with employers, auditors, and boards. This self-paced online course teaches you to define business system controls, assess their effectiveness, and judge them against commonly accepted control objectives. It's Course 2 in ICI's eight-course curriculum, anchored in the Common Body of Knowledge.

You're an internal-control, audit, or compliance professional who needs a defensible method for judging whether a control works.
You lead a finance or operations team and want to assess the controls in your own business systems before an outside reviewer does.
You're working through the ICI curriculum toward the CICS credential and this is the next course in the series.
You're new to control assessment and want a grounding in commonly accepted control objectives.

What you get

What you'll learn

Define business system controls

Know precisely what counts as a control in a business system, so every assessment starts from a clear, defensible definition.

Apply assessment methodologies

Work through the methodologies for assessing whether a control is effective. Your conclusions rest on a defined method.

Judge against accepted objectives

Measure the controls you review against commonly accepted control objectives, so your findings rest on a shared standard.

How it works

How the course works

Enroll online

Work at your own pace

The course is self-paced. Move through the material on your own schedule, around your workload.

Put the method to work

Apply the assessment methodology in your next control review, or continue through the eight-course curriculum toward the CICS credential.

Method changes how your judgment is received

When you can show how you reached a conclusion about a control, the conclusion gets treated differently. Employers see someone who works from a defined framework. Auditors meet a counterpart who speaks their language. Boards get an answer they can act on. That standing is earned. This course covers the assessment method behind it, taught against the same Common Body of Knowledge that anchors ICI's credentials.

Questions

Frequently asked

Is the course self-paced?

Yes. It's delivered online and you move through the material on your own schedule.

Do I need to take Internal Control Boot Camp first?

ICI courses can be picked by topic, so you can start here. You can also work the full eight-course curriculum toward the CICS credential.

Does this course connect to ICI certification?

The course is taught against the Common Body of Knowledge, the same framework behind ICI's credentials, and sits in the curriculum that supports CICS. For current certification requirements, review the CICS page or contact the Institute.

Is there a member benefit on courses?

Members receive their first course free with their first membership, and annual subscribers can enroll in any course directly. See the membership pages for details.