MBA. Internal Auditing

Welcome Message from the Coordinator

On behalf of the Dean and Management of the School of Graduate Studies (SOGS) of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), I am pleased to welcome you to study this programme. We are delighted you chose UPSA and look forward to a productive partnership that will ensure you realise your highest potential.

As a professional university, our graduate programmes seek to achieve excellence, innovation, and the highest quality in teaching, learning and research. The MBA Internal Auditing programme is designed to prepare students aspiring to assume high managerial positions in medium to large organisations to acquire the requisite skills to ensure the highest-level compliance to auditing standards, best practices, and accountability to its stakeholders in how the organisation is operated, regulated, and controlled within relevant laws and regulations.

The uniqueness of this programme is its character of blending theory and practice in the programme design and delivery. The strength of MBA Auditing, therefore, lies in its practical emphasis without compromising academic rigour. This qualification, therefore, leaves the learner with practical skills to combat challenges in governance in their places of work. Upon successful completion, graduates will acquire the appropriate skills in audit practice and management. Students will also gain skills to enable them to exhibit a highly specialised set of leadership skills for high organisational performance in auditing career paths and opportunities in management, among others.

We are pleased with our latest accomplishments and trust in a flourishing future with even more developments. We hope you share our vision and passion! Feel free to contact the programme coordinator if you need any additional information.

Programme Philosophy

In collaboration with the Internal Audit Agency (IAA) with the support of the World Bank, the University of Professional Studies, Accra designed the Master of Business Administration Internal Auditing at the postgraduate level to meet high-level academic and professional needs of the public and private sectors of the economy.

The curriculum emphasises understanding the concepts and approaches to audit, investigations, assurance services, and consulting services and developing skills to apply to the underlying concepts and approaches to professional services. In line with the objectives of the assignment, the consultant, a Tertiary Institution, has developed a curriculum that meets international standards for the sustainable training of Internal Auditors in Tertiary Institutions. In addition to that, the curriculum developed will prepare the internal auditors for the professional Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) Certification or its affiliated qualifications. Over the years, the University has admitted and graduated several batches of students with a Master of Business Administration in Internal Auditing.

Programme Objectives

The objectives of the MBA in Internal Auditing are to:

• Develop students’ knowledge, skills, and understanding of audits from planning to reporting.

• Equip students with practical knowledge in Internal Auditing.

• Develop information system auditing capability for Internal Auditors

• Equip students with the necessary competence to identify and assess internal controls in an organisation that will enable management to attain organisational objectives.

• Provide students with the requisite basic knowledge to be able to write and pass the final certification examinations of the Certified Internal Auditor examinations.

Programme Outcomes

On the successful completion of the MBA Auditing programme, graduates will:

• Demonstrate considerable knowledge and skills in the Auditing profession.

• Apply a significant understanding of the legal and regulatory environment and its impact on audit.

• Design an internal control manual for any organisation.

• Design an effective forensic system capable of detecting and preventing organisational fraud.

• Perform a complete audit task in any organisation.

• Conduct internal and external audits in any organisation.

• Demonstrate considerable knowledge of derivative instruments and their impact on Auditing in contemporary governance.

• Analyse and interpret trading activities in the money and financial markets.

Structure of the Programme

The MBA Auditing programme is a two-year programme taken over four semesters. It is made up of core courses, mandatory and a research component. See table below for details.

Mr. Thompson Aneyire Kubaje is a lecturer in the Department of Accounting. He is an experienced finance officer with decades of practice both within the private and public sectors. Mr Kubaje is a Chartered Accountant and also holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Ghana Business School.

He has worked with the Ghana Postal Service as part of their internal audit mobile team. He has also worked with Danafco Limited as an Accounts Officer. He was the Finance Manager with Christian Mothers Association, a non-governmental organisation on the empowerment of women with multi-donor funding from Korand Adenauer Stiftung and Japan International Development Agency (JICA). He had a short sting with Ba-Iseng Construction Company, and he is the founding member of MONFIN microfinance.

Mr Kubaje is currently pursuing a PhD with the Open University of Malaysia, Accra Institute of Technology.

Contact the Coordinator via:

email: [email protected]

Phone Number: +233 209978020