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IIA-CFSA: IIA Certified Financial Services Auditor

Author: Jodie Fry
by Jodie Fry
Posted: Aug 07, 2014

IIA-CFSA: IIA Certified Financial Services Auditor exam is for the professionals that have fundamental knowledge and skills related to the CFSA. The exam is taken in the time duration of approximately three hours in which the candidate has to complete question which are one hundred and fifteen in number. The exam questions are of the format of multiple choices in which the candidate has to score a passing level set by the vendor. The questions derived from the course are eighty percent from the syllabus given which are mandatory and the twenty percent of the exam will be based on the choice of candidate’s topic.

IIA-CFSA: IIA Certified Financial Services Auditor exam is divided into four main domains that are Financial Services Auditing, Auditing Financial Services Product, Auditing Financial Service Processes and The Regulatory Environment; these domains cover the exam between twenty five to thirty percent. The details of these topics are mentioned below:

The first domain consists covers International Professional Practices Framework, Internal Control/Risk Management/Governance, Internal Control Framework, Risk Management Frameworks, Governance Models, Audit Process, Audit Planning, Audit Fieldwork, Risk Assessment, Analytical Review, Data Gathering and Evaluation Testing, Tools and Techniques, Audit Communications, Monitoring Outcomes, Implications of Information Technology, Auditing Financial Statement Elements, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, Income/Expense Statement and Off Balance-sheet Items.

The second domain of the IIA-CFSA: IIA Certified Financial Services Auditor exam consists of Lending/Loans, Deposits, Trusts, Annuities, Derivatives, Electronic Services, Cash Management Service, Stocks, Bonds, Commodities, Mutual Funds, Employee Benefits, Capital Market Products, Securities Lending, Insurance Policies, Insurance Products, Foreign Exchange, Asset Management and Money Market Products.

Third domain consist of Risk Management, Asset/Liability Management, Trading Market Risk, Credit, Liquidity, Operational Risk, Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses, Reserves, Underwriting, Loans Securities, Insurance, Private Placement, Initial Public Offerings, Securitizations, Treasury Operations, Back-office Operations, Marketing Sales and Distribution, Investments, Broker/Dealer Activities and Rating Advisory Service, Mergers and Acquisitions along with Loan Operations.

The last domain of IIA-CFSA: IIA Certified Financial Services Auditor exam covers Function of Central Bank, Function of Insurance Regulators, Function of Securities Regulators, Laws and Regulations, Equal Credit Opportunity/Antidiscrimination, Home Mortgage Disclosure, Reserve Requirements, Insider Transactions, Lending Disclosure, Deposits Disclosure, Real Estate Sales Disclosure, Self-assessment of Internal Controls/Risk Management, Investor/Depositor Protection, Financial and Personal Information Privacy, Anti-Money Laundering, Stock Exchanges and Other Markets, Money and Banking, Role of Money and Banking, Bond and Stock Markets, Effect of Interest Rate Movements and Monetary Management Theories

The topics that are to be chosen by the individuals for validation and cover twenty percent of the exam are Banking: Products, Processes, and the Regulatory Environment, Insurance: Products, Processes, and the Regulatory Environment, Securities: Products, Processes, and the Regulatory Environment.

IIA-CFSA: IIA Certified Financial Services Auditor exam can be prepared with the help of the sample questions which is given by vendor, the sample questions are just to give an idea to the individuals that what the real questions would be like and they not in any way means that they are a part of actual exam or something.

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