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Inside This Issue...2 Presidents Message4 Chapter Highlights for 2015-20165 IIA Canada & HQ News & Scholarships10 Membership / Member Recognition12 Professional Development16 Certifications19 Chapter Progress Report20 Chapter Board21 Meet the Board

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July 2016 – AGM Edition

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Presidents Message

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Presidents MessageAs our Past President Kelly Dorin mentioned during his remarks at our AGM, fiscal 2015-16 was another powerful year for the Vancouver Island Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors. Our Chapter achieved “Gold Chapter” status for the ninth consecutive year.

Our Programs Team once again did an excellent job bringing top notch highly-rated sessions to our members. Congratulations to all our past board members for your ongoing dedication and commitment to the internal audit profession. We all appreciate that volunteering is time consuming!

As I indicated in my brief remarks at the closing of our AGM, our plans for the future are not significantly different than in the past. At the same, we recognize that there are challenging times budget wise for our members and attendance at association events across Victoria are starting to dwindle. We are not alone in this as the Union Club has seen event bookings shrink over the past year.

We understand that members can elect for online learning to fulfil their CPE requirements and we need to keep our programs relevant and meaningful. This can be equally challenging for us in that we have such a wide diversity of members and member interests, as well as changing environmental factors and guidance on the topics that our profession is advised to pay attention to. Our chapter will continue to focus on bringing low cost, high value educational programs to our membership along with all of the other benefits we try to provide through our certifications support, member support, and advocacy opportunities through IIA Canada.

We will also strive for Gold status for the tenth time during the 2016-2017 year. If we can do this one more time within the next two years, we attain Platinum service. Don’t worry about us slacking off afterwards though as we need to gain Gold status every year to maintain our platinum status. If we do this for 10 more years, we see Ruby status on the far distant horizon. And, we can only achieve these targets by focusing on our services to you, our chapter members.

Special AGM Edition NewsletterThis edition of the newsletter is primarily focused on the Vancouver Island Chapter, our results for the year just ended and your new board. For those of you unable to attend our AGM, the chapter highlights report and member recognition from the AGM are included within.

We will return to our regular format in July with our ongoing efforts to provide you with articles and information to support you in your ongoing professional growth and interests.

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Presidents Message

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Our Chapter membership shrunk slightly this year and we realize that we are simply not going to expand much beyond current membership levels. None the less, we still set our sights on expanding and improving benefits to members. We continue to reach out to our Colleagues in other chapters to see how we can improve our services and are currently talking with the International Association of Financial Crime Investigators (IAFCI) here in Victoria to see what future collaboration may be possible.

The LinkedIn site has been well utilized in 2015/16. We are also now recognized as a target resource for job postings for the Internal Audit and related professions, which we post to both our website and our linked in group (for free). We have posted 8 opportunities since the beginning of May as some of our long term members are retiring and some of our organizations are adjusting their structures.

Our Chapter continues to work with Camosun College on the development of their Internal Audit course. Camosun is now accepting registrations for its September semester. You can read about exciting opportunities for attending this course, at a reduced rate as a course auditor, further in this newsletter. As part of our academic outreach, the chapter has hosted student members at luncheon events and plans to continue this to introduce young professionals to the profession.

With more than 180,000 members, the IIA is one of the few associations with a worldwide presence, and all chapters are focusing on the value of the profession. I would like to thank all of our Board and chapter members both for their past support in bringing that value to light and for providing me with the opportunity to serve as the Chapter’s President.

Graham TranterGraham Tranter, CIA, CFE, CRMA, CISA, CCSA, PMP is currently a Senior IT/Internal Auditor, with a long history of risk management, project management and IT management, including the establishment of security and records management offices and programs. Graham is your President, Certifications Chair, Communications Chair, and Acting Programs Chairs.

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Chapter Highlights for 2015-2016

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As described at our recent AGM, following are the chapter highlights for 2015-2016:

Professional Development Programs • 13 professional development events: 8 luncheon presentations, and 2 workshops, including our annual

Fraud Conference, a two day workshop in IT fundamentals, a joint session with ICD, a session supporting the BC Public Sector Internal Audit Leaders and an event supporting Camosun college, totalling 46.5 CPE hours offered. We served 389 participants in the past year, 196 of those participants were comprised of 68 individual members of our chapter. Presented topics included::

o Mental Toughness o Fundamentals of IT Auditing o Great Expectations, Risky Business o Internal Audit Capability Modelo Internal Audit as a Profession (Camosun) o BCPSIAL November Meetingo 2014 IIA VI Fraud Awareness Program o Compliance with MOH and CRAo Cordial but not Cozy (Audit leadership) and AGM o Integrated Assurance Grailo Achieving Success Today, Enabling Success Tomorrowo An Effective Control Environment for Financial Reportingo e-Mail Malfeasance, Misrepresentation and Media Coverage

Leadership • Achieved “Gold Chapter” status for ninth consecutive year, based on points determined in IIA’s Chapter

Achievement Program (CAP): Services to Members; Services to the Profession; Chapter Administration. • Board President participated in the development of IIA Canada’s Business Management Framework, and

the Advocacy Sub-Committees. • Vice President attended the IIA Leadership Conference and the District Workshop with IIA Canada.

Membership and Certification • As of May 31, 2016, we have 105 members. • Expanded IIA Government Group Membership to maximize benefits to Government IIA members attaining

a $15USD discount per member. Expecting to achieve $40USD a year in membership discounts.• Completed distribution of IIA Nametags to enhance chapter professionalism and networking opportunities.• Continued a certification support program to provide limited financial support to those members who

successfully completed IIA exams. This support is eligible only if the exams are personally funded.• Continued to offer two significantly discounted CIA-exam products (IIA and Gleim).• Chapter subsidized members IIA International Conference Registration fees.

Marketing & Communications • Our chapter enhanced our member service by continuing an informal event communication network with

ISACA Victoria, ICD Vancouver Island, FMI Victoria, ACFE Vancouver, and CPA Vancouver Island. • Regular Chapter newsletters were provided to enhance communication of Chapter activities to members

and we continue to maintain our Chapter website with updated information on Chapter events.

Academic Relations • Our Chapter continues to work closely with Camosun College on the development of their Internal Audit

course.

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IIA Headquarter News and Announcements

IIA HQ and IIAC provide free monthly webinars. Click here for upcoming sessions or follow the links below to register for IIA HQ or IIA Canada free webinars (many are Members Only).

03-August-2016 Coping with Ethical Pressure

16-August-2016 Data Analytics – Maximizing Value for Internal Audit

20-September-2016 Technology Champions: Key Enablers for Internal Audit

18-October-2016 Leveraging Data to Manage Your Fraud Risk

15-November-2016: Auditing at the Speed of Risk

Don’t Forget! One benefit of being an IIA member is having access to an extensive library of archived webinars. NOTE: On-demand webinars do not qualify for NASBA CPEs.

Click on AUDIT CHANNEL.tv above, relax and enjoy some quality and empowering TV, including:

Audit Committees Owe CAEs Meaningful InvolvementWhat does the audit committee owe the CAE? IIA President and CEO Richard Chambers discusses why audit committees must remain actively involved in hiring, firing, review and compensation of the CAE and more. Anything less endangers the organization’s investment in internal audit and good governance.

Management’s View of Internal Audit Reflects Organizational CultureCan the relationship between internal audit and management tell us anything about an organization’s culture? IIA President and CEO Richard Chambers discusses some signs to look out for that might suggest a good or bad corporate culture.

Setting Your Career Path with Certifications and QualificationsThe IIA offers a portfolio of credentials to communicate your readiness to tackle the distinct challenges you will face along your unique internal audit career journey.

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IIA Headquarter News and Announcements

THIS MONTH’S FEATURE:

Collaborative Auditing

New from The IIA Research Foundation!

The role internal auditors play within their organizations continues to evolve, bringing new opportunities to consistently deliver value through quality work.

Collaborative Auditing provides guidance through an understanding that internal audit’s responsibility goes beyond individual audit engagements to ensuring that key stakeholders are left with the knowledge and tools they need to improve processes and address the root causes of issues within their organizations.

With step-by-step guides, auditors will learn how to effectively use these tools. Auditors will gain:• A more robust audit process focused on adding value in support of

the organization’s key objectives.• Tools and techniques to effectively engage management and build

stronger professional relationships with key stakeholders.• A framework for addressing the root cause of issues and providing

high-impact insights to management.

Maximize your competency by going beyond the traditional internal auditor’s role to use the audit process to engage and educate key stakeholders in managing their risk and meeting their objectives more effectively

Download your copy at reduced member rates now

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IIA Canada News and Announcements

20 Questions Directors Should Ask of Internal Audit Many auditors know of this publication. It’s been around for years and is a staple in how boards should consider the IA function and what questions boards should ask of their auditors. The second edition was published in 2007 by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Institute of Corporate Directors. You may be surprised to learn that although co-authored by an IIA member, the IIA was not terribly involved in this publication.

The third edition, published in 2015, was co-branded as being published by the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada and the Institute of Internal Auditors Canada. Although primarily still a CPA document, it gives credence to the input and contributions of the IIA.

In theory, Board Chair’s will now be motivated to call Internal Audit to ask questions about this document. Our professional colleagues within CPA Canada will be reminded that when it comes to risks and controls, Internal Audit might be the right people to turn too.

IIA Canada is pursuing the development and deployment of a national advocacy strategy, which includes a series of strategic partnerships with key stakeholders such as CPA Canada, ICD Canada, the Director’s College and the Government Internal Audit Council of Canada

We are hopeful that CPA Canada will be sharing some recommended guidance to their Canadian chapters in this respect and that this is another step for advocacy of our profession within Canada.

Canadian Public Sector Audit CentreEstablished in 2016, the Canadian Public Sector Audit Centre (“the Centre”) is a service to public sector members of IIA Canada.

See https://www.theiia.org/centers/cpsac/Pages/default.aspx.

This may be very relevant to our chapter because the majority of our members are in the public sector. It has government focused audio casts and publications, for example, the webinar on Role of the Internal Audit in Implementing a Corporate ERM.

Progress Through Sharing

We always welcome your contributions through offers of articles for our newsletter or presentations to our membership. Remember, developing and publishing an article or preparing and delivering a presentations also earns you CPE in support of your annual certification requirements.

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Internal Auditor Magazine Scholarships

Internal Auditor will offer six, $1,000 essay scholarships throughout 2016. Essay questions will be based on the current Internal Auditor issue, and winners will be chosen by a volunteer subcommittee from the Publications Advisory Committee. The students who write the most informative and intuitive essays on internal audit subjects will be selected as the winner. Winning essays will be published on InternalAuditor.org and reference both the chapter and university with which the winner is associated. In addition, the three finalists for each scholarship will be given a free, one-year student membership to The Institute of Internal Auditors. Scholarship winners will be notified within the month following the application period.

Students will download the scholarship application form to get started. Once they have completed their essay, they will submit both the completed application form and their essay to Scholarship@theiia.org.

The scholarship essay topics and submission periods are as follows:

June 2016 – 31 July 2016: How can internal audit functions use analytics to improve efficiency?

August 2016 – 30 September 2016: What is the Internet of Things, and what are the risks/opportunities it presents to organizations?

October 2016 – 30 November 2016: How can internal auditors work with the second line of defense when conducting compliance risk assessments?

December 2016 – 31 January 2017: How can internal auditors best communicate difficult findings/messages to their customers and stakeholders?

The IIA’s Academic Relations Program

For decades, The IIA has been committed to Academic Relations by providing dedicated staffing and volunteer support. As the profession evolved, so did the needs of the academic community for “internal audit-ready” graduates to enter the business arena and meet the demand for graduates with a reduced learning curve.

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Membership

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Welcome New Members!Our Chapter is pleased to welcome the following new or returning members.

• Nijjy Potikanon CIA, CRMA, MBA, CFE

IIA VI Chapter Provincial Government Group Membership

Are you a provincial government employee but not part of a group at renewals time (i.e. renewals are not managed by your office - you renew individually and claim for reimbursement, or not)? If so, you may wish to consider joining the IIA Vancouver Island Government Group.

We will ask you to fill out the membership form, but will not submit the form until close to your renewal time (a few weeks in advance), Then when we get invoiced, we will be able to let you know how much of a saving has been achieved.

Save Money?

Yes, there is a form to complete and an alignment of your renewal to November 30th each year, but you benefit from discounted membership fees. Right now, the discount has increased from $15USD to $40USD per year; and will stay that way if we can maintain a minimum of 25 members in the group (reached this month). Your membership will be pro-rated for renewal through our registration site every November.

We will also reach out to you closer to your renewal time if we determine that you might be interested in this group. Note that in most cases we don’t know how your membership is paid for so feel free to reach out to us first.

For more details, please contact our Membership & Marketing Chair at Shaun.Price@forces.gc.ca.

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Member Recognition

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Member Recognition Presentations

Long Term Member Recognition10 Years • John Eustace• Norman Jung

15 Years • Stephen Abercrombie CPA, CA, CIA, CFE• Peter Bourne CPA, CA, CIA, CFE• Jackie Bruneau CPA, CA, CIA• Sheila Dodds CPA, CA, CIA• Kelly Dorin CPA, CA, CIA, CFE, CRSA, CCSA• Lorna Pritchard CPA, CA, CIA• Stephen Ward CPA, CA, CIA

20 Years• John Shenton CPA, CA, CIA• Stuart Newton, CPA, CA, CIA

At our recent AGM, we were pleased to recognize the members of our chapter for their contributions as departing board members, for long term service membership, and commitment to the profession, and to our newly certified associates and colleagues.

2014-2015 New IIA Certification DesignationsCertified Internal Auditor (CIA)Michael Stanton, CPA, CIA, CFEAmy Hoggard MS, CPA,CA, CFE, CIAGunter Wallner, CIA

Departing Board Members• Robert Bowness, Board Member since 2014.• Jackie Bruneau, Board Member since 2007.

• Lyndsay Green, Board Member since 2014.• Georg Woernle, Board Member since 2012.• Steve Ward, Board Member since 2007.

Date Event Type Topic

August 18Luncheon (1.5 CPE)(12:00-2:00)

It’s easy to be busy, It’s hard to be productive – Plan, Organize, Execute

September 15Luncheon (1.5 CPE)(12:00-2:00)

Expectations of Internal Audit in Cybersecurity

October 21Full Day (8 CPE) Conference

Annual Fraud Program

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AUGUST 2016 – December 2016

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All events are held at the Union Club of BC, 805 Gordon StreetFor registration to any of the above, or more information on upcoming events

Go to Institute of Internal Auditors Vancouver Island Chapter.

Performance Auditing

We understand that a co-author of the IIARF publication Performance Auditing: A Measurement Approach (Stephen Morgan) may be presenting on this subject to the Toronto chapter in April of 2017. In collaboration with the Vancouver chapter, we are going to see if it is possible to capitalize on Stephen’s presence here in Canada to potentially bring you a two day workshop on Performance Auditing.

We will send more information as it becomes available and in future Newsletter.

Mental Toughness

From your feedback, we are not convinced that we have sufficient interest to support a full 2 day chapter seminar on our May luncheon topic (by all means tell us if you are interested). We will be in contact with Switchback later in the year to discuss a potential spring workshop further.

However, if you cant wait, Switchback is holding a public two day training on September 23rd and 24th, 2016. It goes from 9am to 4pm and will be held at the Royal Golf and Country Club. The cost is $500 per person. For more details and to get registered, contact Paul Vermes (pvermes@switchbacksafe.com) or Alex Shane (alex@switchbackthinking.com). The registration is half full already so if anybody is interested they should make contact as soon as possible.

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Professional Development

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It’s easy to be busy, It’s hard to be productive – Plan, Organize, ExecuteSpeaker: Paul Stokes, Executive Partner, Gartner.When: Thursday, August 18, 2016 from 12:00 to 2:00 (1.5 CPE hours)Where: Begbie Lounge, The Union Club of BC, 805 Gordon Street, VictoriaPrice: $30 for IIA, ICD, ISACA, CPA, FMI, ACFE members / $35 for non-membersAgenda: 11:45-12:00 Registration

12:00-12:30 Lunch and networking12:30-1:45 Presentations with Q&A Session

Registration for this event is now open until Sunday, August 14th https://www.gifttool.com/registrar/ShowEventDetails?ID=1902&EID=22610

Overview

We all struggle with managing the firehouse of activities in work and life. The struggle often leads to a lack of fulfillment and continual overload. It’s time to step back from it all, refocus, develop a plan and use simple techniques that will help you manage your workload and inbox, maximize your results and increase enjoyment in your life.

This session will step you through a set of proven approaches that will allow you to take control, manage your time and maximize your productivity. Learn how to keep it simple and manageable.

Who Should Attend

This topic would be of interest to anybody who is interested in personal/professional development. In a work environment where the mantra appears to be do more with less, time and task management will affect us all, especially those of us with 1000’s of emails in our in box all clamoring for attention.

About The Speaker

Paul Stokes is a Gartner Executive Partner based in Victoria, British Columbia. He works closely with Gartner Executive Programs clients, providing executive-level advice, guidance, counsel, direction and assistance to support the CIO role and helping members to use Gartner resources to succeed in their organizations.

Before joining Gartner, Mr. Stokes was Chief Information Officer at the University of Victoria (22,000 students and 5,500 employees), responsible for the information technology services for the University, including academic, administrative and research computing. Mr. Stokes has over 23 years of experience in the IT industry, including as CIO of two BC Universities and has both Bachelors and Masters of Science degrees in Computer Science.

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Internal Audit - ACCT 385

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ACCT 385 Internal Auditing

Effective Date: September 2016

Students will be introduced to internal auditing and its role in business and government for risk management, control, and governance. Planning and conducting internal audit engagements, and effectively communicating the results, will be emphasized. This course is accredited with the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). Students who have successfully completed this course will be able to write the IIA’s examinations for the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) designation.

Sep.12.2016 - Dec.05.2016 Lecture M 05:30PM -08:20PM, Centre Business & Access Bldg., Room 282

ACCT 365:Over the past months, our chapter has shared Camosun’s progress towards the provision of the first Internal Audit credit course in Western Canada.

This progress has become a reality. Camosun now has a new Internal Audit course as part of their professional accounting programs starting this September.

The offering of this course is due in no small part to help from our chapter board. Keri Norrie, FCPA, FCA, CGA is the Chair of the Accounting and IS Department at Camosun College’s, School of Business. Keri recalls:

“I remember meeting with Kelly over two years ago to discuss the IIA and this course so it is wonderful to see it come to fruition. We are also fortunate to have it instructed by our excellent instructor, Amy Hoggard”.

Amy Hoggard was recently honored at our AGM for receiving her CIA designation this year, a great start to a course that actually covers materials similar to that found in a CIA exam preparation course.

For any of Camosun’s accounting courses, including now the new Acct 385 Internal Audit course, interested members of the community can take the course for credit or for non-credit by registering for it as an ‘audit’ student even if they do not have the prerequisite.

It‘s a 14 week course, meeting on Monday evenings from 5:30-8:20 starting September 12. If taken for credit, the cost is $579 plus additional fees (such as parking, course guidebook, etc.), whereas the cost is 50% if taken for non-credit.

The Audit option form is located at http://camosun.ca/documents/services/audit/audit-permission.pdf and Keri can assist anyone interested in this option. Basically it allows someone to take a course for interest at 50% of the cost for taking it for credit. You attend the first session, and then if you want to take the course and if there is room in the class, you have the instructor sign the form and then hand in the form with your fees within the following 14 days (September 26th)

For anyone interested in the course, you can contact Keri at norriek@camosun.bc.ca and she can answer any questions as well as assist with registration and admission as needed.

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The Audit Option

As noted on the back of the Audit a Course for General Interest form referred to on the previous page, the fees for the audit option are only half of the full credit course. However, taking the course as an auditor means you don’t write the exams or get graded so you wouldn’t necessarily know how well prepared you would be to take the CIA exam.

Although you would not receive a grade or professional education credits (as part of a full diploma course), course attendance would still count as qualifying professional education. Given it is a four hour a week course, going for 12 weeks, it provides about 48 CPE worth of self-claimed education, all of which should be valid for the CIA and other secondary IIA designations.

Board Past President Kelly Dorin and current President Graham Tranter are both monitoring registration or this course and looking to try and gain access to the audit option at the inaugural offering this September. As they learn more on this journey, the details on where, how, what and when will be included in future newsletters.

Preparing for the CIA exam

Just to clarify, there actually isn’t a formal linkage between the course and the exam itself. This is not an IIA delivered course and it doesn’t include IIA membership or exam application fees.

The course could be considered to be very much like a CIA review course in that it tells you everything you need to know, covers all of the areas that would be covered in a CIA review, and should be good practice for the exams. Taking the full course and passing with an 80% grade would indicate sufficient knowledge and a likelihood of being able to pass the CIA exam, but they remain a completely different thing.

To take the CIA exam, you would still need to register with the IIA, pay the exam fee, and sit the exam. You would also need the requisite number of years of experience, etc. Qualifying to take the exam isn’t linked to the course. This is why we would equate it more to the CIA preparation review course

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IIA CIA Learning System

The IIA's Certified Internal Auditor® (CIA®) certification is the only globally accepted designation for internal auditors. It is a four-part exam that remains the standard by which individuals demonstrate their comprehensive competence and professionalism in the internal auditing field.

In response to market demand for premier quality global CIA exam preparation, The IIA has developed The IIA's CIA Learning System™.

IIA Certifications

Exclusive Offer to Members

The IIA's CIA Learning System is a comprehensive print and online CIA review program that will prepare you to pass the CIA exam

A French version of the program is also available.

For more information on IIA’s CIA Learning System click on the logo to the bottom left.

But before you purchase, read on…

Your IIA Vancouver Island Chapter is pleased to assist members interested in obtaining the globally recognized CIA designation through providing IIA’s CIA Learning System at significantly lower prices:

• Full Kit : 3-Part Exam, CAD$925* (New!)• Individual Part, CAD $400* (New!)

Note: * All inclusive. Subject to change without notice. Prices for non-members are also available.

This offer represents significant savings from the regular prices offered directly through the IIA.

For more information and to purchase your IIA’s CIA Learning System , please go to the following link.

The IIA's CIA Learning System - Order/Payment Site

16Certifications Questions? Ask our Certification Chair Graham Tranter at gtranter@uvic.ca

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IIA Certification: Financial Support

To support our chapter members in their pursuit of IIA Certification(s), the chapter will provide financial support to the successful candidates who meet the following criteria.

1. All exam and application fees were personally funded.

2. All eligibility requirements were met and passed the exam(s).

3. Be a good standing member when the certification is awarded.

Each successful candidate will receive $100. A limit of 5 successful candidates has been set upfor each fiscal year.

IIA Certifications

Gleim CIA Study Material Discount

In addition to the discounts on IIA’s CIA Learning System, we are proud to offer significant discounts on Gleim’s CIA Study Materials for our chapter members.

As a chapter member, you can get a 20% discount on Gleim’s CIA exam prep products. Please visit the Members Only section of the IIA Vancouver Island website.

We would like to hear from you. Any comment or suggestion on how we can support you for earning IIA Certifications?

Certification Spotlight

Tell us your story on your journey to certification and we will publish it in our next newsletter. Share your experience!

What certification did you achieve and when?What prompted you to become certified?How did you prepare for the exam?How has certification helped your career?What advice do you have for others seeking certification?

Answer these questions along with a professional bio and picture to The Connector editor at gtranter@uvic.ca to earn your page on our bi-monthly newsletter.

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This year (2016), your Vancouver Island Chapter was again awarded the IIA Chapter of Excellence, through the chapter’s support of the CIA designation, including access to reduced costs for the IIA’s CIA Learning System program

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Chapter Progress Report

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The IIA Vancouver Island Chapter has

101 MembersSharing the following certifications

Your Chapter Report

In 2015-2016 we achieved GOLD Status for the 9th consecutive year. We need to do this one more time in the next two years to attain PLATINUM status. Following is our 2016-2017 status as at June 30th, 2016.

Service Category Required CAP Points Achieved CAP

Service to Members 325 48.42

Service to the Profession 200 265.50

Chapter Administration 160 54.00

Total (Bronze at) 685 367.92

We need to pass a 1,560 point target for GOLD status. Additionally, we need to attain the minimum required CAP points in each service category. We must attain both the minimums in each service category and an overall point total. We are only able to do this by continuously striving to bring you events, information, and the support you need or want for your professional growth.

Thank you to all our members who support the Chapter through attending events, suggesting topics and speakers, contributing newsletter articles, presenting to the chapter, answering our surveys, and supporting the Internal Audit Profession.

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Position Name Organization Contact

President Graham Tranter, CIA, CFE, CRMA, CISA, CCSA

University of Victoria

gtranter@uvic.ca(250) 853-3185

Vice President, Lisa deWit, CPA, CGA, CIA, HBCom

Department of National Defence

Lisa.deWit@forces.gc.ca(250) 363-5631

Treasurer Tony PollardCPA, CA, CFP

Parker Johnson tpollard@parkerjohnston.com(250) 888-6571

Secretary Jenny Yue-Detterer,CPA, CA

KPMG jyuedetterer@kpmg.ca

Programs Chair Sonia Vicente,Bcom

Ministry of Finance – IAAS

On Leave

Programs Chair (Acting)

Graham Tranter, CIA, CFE, CRMA, CISA, CCSA

University of Victoria

gtranter@uvic.ca(250) 853-3185

Programs Vacant

Membership &Marketing,

Shaun Price, CPA, CA, CIA, CGAP, CRMA, BCom

Department of National Defence

Shaun.Price@forces.gc.ca

Certifications Graham Tranter, CIA, CFE, CRMA, CISA, CCSA

University of Victoria

gtranter@uvic.ca(250) 853-3185

Communications Graham Tranter, CIA, CFE, CRMA, CISA, CCSA

University of Victoria

gtranter@uvic.ca(250) 853-3185

Past President Kelly Dorin, CFE, CPA, CA, CIA, CCSA, CRMA

University of Victoria

kdorin@uvic.ca(250) 853-3184

Governor Teeravit Chintawongvanich, CPA, CMA, CIA, CFE, CRMA

BC Investment Management Corporation

teeravit.chintawongvanich@bcimc.com(778) 410-7107

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Chapter Board for 2016-2017

Remember that you can give us feedback at any time by contacting any of the board members identified within this (and all) newsletters. In addition, we have created a completely anonymous (no IP tracking, no identification required) survey consisting a single question allowing you to give us feedback whenever you want.

IIA Vancouver Island Anonymous Feedback : https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZVNND73

We welcome our 2016-2017 Chapter Board of Directors

Please fee free to contact our Board members with your questions, concerns, opinions, or even kudo’s at any time . We welcome your feedback in improving our service to you and the profession.

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Meet the Board

Along the way I have used, to varying depths, about 140 now mostly irrelevant or dead computer languages. I still program in a few.

I’m not even close to a specialist and tend to refer to myself as a business generalist in the IT sense, having had exposure to just about all aspects of IT that one could encounter: Systems Development and Maintenance, Workstation Services (Help Desk) , Data Centre Operations, Project Management, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, Records Management, Privacy and Freedom of Information, Middleware (Databases / Application Servers), Migration Management (Change Control), Architecture, Quality Management (ISO9001 Audit), and somewhere in there, 5 years leading Information Security for the BC Pension Corporation.

Having determined after 28 years that enough was enough, I swapped professions instead of employers and entered the field of Internal Audit at the University of Victoria where I currently enjoy my second appearance interrupted only by a brief stint in Saskatchewan. Possibly naturally, much of my audit work revolves around IT. Oddly, most of my colleagues in the 90’s feared I might one day migrate to the audit field.

I am the current President \ Certifications \ Programs (Acting) and Communications Chair of the IIA Vancouver Island Chapter, having been on the board for the past 6 years and have just completed my third term as Secretary of the ISACA Victoria Chapter. Can one over-volunteer?

Graham Tranter, CIA, CFE, CRMA, CISA, CCSA

2016-2018 Chapter President

I am not an auditor! OK, maybe I am, but I didn’t start out that way.

My career started with the Alberta Government in 1982 as a Programmer Analyst, drafted straight out of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology to work on the in-house re-development of the Alberta Pension System – a system that stayed in service until the early 2000’s.

Since then I have held 29 or 30 positions in 15 or 16 distinct companies in B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan. I have managed or led over 60 IT projects for government, health care, the phone company (AGT – the original Telus), consultants (CGI and ISM Alberta –the original ISM), and various crown corporations such as BC Systems and the BC Pension Corporation.

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She currently serves as the Regional Civilian Co-Chair for the Defence Aboriginal Advisory Group (DAAG) which advises Senior Leadership on Aboriginal issues. Additionally, Lisa has been on the Board of Directors for the Institute of Internal Auditors since April 2013 serving as the Secretary. In 2016, Lisa moved to the Vice President role where she will ensures that the chapter meet’s its CAP targets and achieves Platinum status.

After earning a Commerce degree with distinction from the University of Victoria (UVic), she pursued specialties as a Chartered Professional Accountant and Certified Internal Auditor. Lisa was one of the first twelve inaugural Ch’nook Scholars with the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. Ch’nook Scholars honor and promote Aboriginal business professionals.

She mentored in the Len’onet program at UVic and has been a member of the Aboriginal Financial Officers Association (AFOA). As a recipient of the UVic Blue and Gold award, she was recognized for her work to improve life on campus and in the community.

On a perfect day, you would find Lisa, with her children, connecting with nature either scuba diving, snowboarding or canoeing.

2016-2018 Chapter Vice President

Lisa is a proud Wet’suwet’en woman and acknowledges the strength of the ancestors on her home territory in northern British Columbia.

Professionally, Lisa is a CGA, CPA, CIA currently with the Department of National Defence in Canada as a Senior Project Manager in Internal Audit.

As a civilian, she conducts operational audits and assists in fraud investigations on the military base.Lisa deWit, CGA, CPA, CIA

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2016-2018 Chapter Treasurer

Tony currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer at Parker Johnston Industries Ltd. as well as a Finance and Internal Audit Executive Consultant.

Professionally, Tony is a CPA, CA, CFP with a history of senior roles at such organizations as KPMG, Oracle, Inamed, Digital Insight, and PRT Growing Services Ltd.

Tony joined the IIA Vancouver Island chapter in 2015 as Certifications Chair and has grudgingly volunteered to take over as Treasurer for continuity purposes and to support a worthwhile organization he believes in and supports.

Tony invites you to volunteer at the IIA VI and take this role away from him. Tony Pollard, CPA, CA, CFP

2016-2018 Chapter Secretary

Jenny is a Manager in KPMG’s Risk Consulting practice in Victoria.

She has over ten years of public practice experience in external financial audit, internal audit and risk consulting services, including significant experience working with public sector clients in British Columbia and New South Wales (NSW), Australia.

Jenny specializes in documenting and evaluating internal controls, business process improvement, budget process analysis, financial reporting requirements, risk management and policy development.

During her time at KPMG Sydney, Jenny’s focus was on the health and human services sector, having delivered a number of strategic and operational internal audits for the NSW Department of Family and Community Services to strengthen its financial and operational processes and controls to drive business performance.

Jenny Yue-Detterer, CPA, CA

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After selling my Baskin-Robbins stores, I approached my former accounting instructor and asked him if he had any suggestions for what I should do next. He suggested completing the Chartered Accounting Designation, so I enrolled in the Accounting Program, and applied to the Victoria accounting firms for an articling position. I was hired by KPMG, and I gained valuable audit and consulting experience. I left KPMG about four years later shortly after I received my CA Designation. I joined the Office of the Comptroller General as a senior internal auditor, and I was with them for about 10 years. During this time I was responsible for the internal audit portfolios at the Ministries of Children & Family Development, Transportation, Economic Development, Forests and Range, Environment, and Agriculture. I left the Office of the Comptroller General to establish the Internal Audit Department at BC Assessment. After setting up the internal Audit department and completing 33 audits, I joined the University of Victoria as the Manager of Internal Audit, where I remain today.

I am the past President of the Vancouver Island Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors, and past President of the Victoria Chapter of the Chartered Accountant’s Association. I am very passionate about the internal audit profession, and I would highly recommend internal auditing to anyone considering entering the profession.

2016-2018 Chapter Past President

My career path was not your traditional career path. Shortly after graduating from high school, I attended the University of Victoria with a plan to become a Forensic Scientist. After 3 semesters, I realized that I really wasn’t all that passionate about studying science, and I was more passionate about a career in the hospitality business. I had the opportunity to meet an accommodation inspector from the Ministry of Tourism, and I asked him what qualifications I would need to become an accommodation inspector. I was informed that I would need a Diploma in Hotel/Restaurant Administration, so I immediately signed up for the program, and after attaining my Diploma, I approached the Ministry of Tourism to see if there were any job openings. The Ministry informed me that the qualifications had increased, and I would now also require a Marketing Diploma before they would consider hiring me. One of the assignments in the marketing program required students to research a business opportunity. I researched opening a Baskin-Robbins franchise in Victoria. I was so excited about the opportunity that I opened Victoria’s first Baskin-Robbins prior to graduating from the marketing program. The store was one of Canada’s top stores due to Victoria’s mild climate, and I was able to open a second store a year later. I owned and operated the two stores for 5 years, and I sold them both when it became clear that the fitness movement was going to gradually diminish the profitability of my stores.Kelly Dorin, CFE, CPA, CA, CIA, CCSA, CRMA