The Commission of Audit (CA), in cooperation with the Macau Society of Registered Auditors, carried out in November 26 and 28 two courses through which its staff consolidated and updated their professional knowledge. The course on the first day centred on internal control and was conducted by Eric Yeung e Bernard Li, two professionals in risks control services from Hong Kong. The course on November 28 was devoted to enterprise risk management and Charles Andrew Ellis and Christopher Tang, two specialists in the field in Hong Kong, took turn to deliver the presentation. Sixty seven staffs of CA performing related functions took part in the two courses where they reviewed with the lecturers the theories and other relevant aspects in internal control and risk management.

In the Course on Internal Control, the lecturers examined the fundamental elements and the most recent studies on COSO’s Internal Control — Integrated Framework and also talked about the best practices in its implementation in companies. Calling on real experience and cases and making use of interactive methods, the lecturers and the participants went through the practices and techniques in internal control.

On the other hand, the speakers in the Course on Risk Management analysed the concept and the different types of risks as well as the content, the methods and the benefits of risk evaluation and its contribution to internal audit.

Continuing training for its staff is one of the priorities of CA. For this reason, CA, through multiple forms and methods, offers its staff pertinent courses and other training opportunities in order that they could continuingly updating themselves and be able to keep pace with the rapid social evolution and discharge their audit duties.