Who should watch False Assurance?
False Assurance is a useful training tool for anyone with an interest in board-level governance, professional ethics or audit work. As well as enhancing technical understanding, it helps develop soft skills, such as dealing with difficult relationships and navigating power dynamics.
Accountancy firms and in-house teams
Watching False Assurance or taking part in a training workshop can count towards auditors’ and accountants’ continuing professional development (CPD) training. Sessions can be tailored to suit the audience, for example:
- technical audit training workshops focusing on issues such as the valuation of intangible assets;
- soft skills workshops for all accountants, examining how to deal with difficult client relationships and ethical dilemmas; and/or
- management and leadership workshops, focusing on risk management, and the importance of strong leadership.
By offering a glimpse into the workings of a company board, False Assurance can support training for a broad range of in-house teams, including finance and internal audit teams.
Board directors
Using D-Merton as an example of a ‘board in crisis’, False Assurance recreates the reality of operating at board level, focusing on core topical issues from cybersecurity to the robustness of internal controls.
It can be used to stimulate discussions within board meetings or at away-days for non-executive directors and senior management teams.
Universities and students
Teachers can show False Assurance to help bring the boardroom alive for students, replicating real-life workplace scenarios they won’t yet have experienced. By showing how companies and boards operate, and the role of audit, the film can:
- inspire students to consider a career in audit, accounting and finance;
- develop commercial awareness;
- reinforce the importance of ethics and professional scepticism;
- highlight the need for quality checking and the right way to interrogate information; and
- promote skills such as managing difficult client relationships and teamwork.
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