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The Auditor’s Refusal: Leading When Your Auditor Will Not Sign

For chief executives, chairs, audit-committee members and finance leaders of listed and lender-financed companies. Protect auditor independence, find the facts, manage the market, lenders and insiders, deal with management conflicts and rebuild credibility. Includes a live boardroom simulation.

  • Price₦248,000
  • DurationAbout 240 minutes
  • Access365 days
  • LevelBoardroom
  • You get9 lessons and a boardroom simulation
  • CertificateYes, anyone can verify it

Who it is for

Chief executives, chairs, audit-committee members, CFOs, company secretaries and general counsel of listed companies and businesses financed by banks or bonds.

What you will learn

  • Understand what an audit opinion means and why an auditor refuses to sign
  • Protect auditor independence and let the audit committee lead
  • Find the facts through a proper, independent investigation
  • Handle disclosure, insiders and the market lawfully and calmly
  • Manage lenders, covenants and liquidity when reporting deadlines slip
  • Deal fairly and firmly with conflicts inside management
  • Make the hard choices and rebuild credibility in financial reporting

Course outline

  1. Anatomy of an audit refusal
  2. The first hours: command without interference
  3. What the auditor saw
  4. The audit committee and the board
  5. Markets, exchanges and insiders
  6. Lenders, bondholders and covenants
  7. Management integrity and fairness
  8. Hard decisions
  9. Rebuilding credibility in financial reporting
  10. Boardroom simulation

What is included

  • 9 lessons On a live whiteboard, with an AI instructor who answers from the lesson and cites its source. Questions can go to faculty.
  • A virtual boardroom simulation Face AI board members in a fictional crisis. Scored against a clear rubric (pass mark 75), checked by a person when it is close, with an appeal.
  • A verifiable certificate A certificate of completion with a QR code, with a public page where anyone can check it is genuine. It is not a regulated or accredited qualification.

Level: Boardroom · About 240 minutes · Access for 365 days