Step Into Your Next Role: The Manager Quest
From Registered Candidate Auditor → Confident Manager
As a registered candidate auditor appointed as a manager, your world is about to expand. Beyond technical auditing, you’re now responsible for high-level client communication, risk assessment, engagement oversight, and leading teams.
This quest is your roadmap to success in this new phase of your career.
What You’ll Gain
By completing this online training quest, you’ll:
- Master the responsibilities expected of managers and partners
- Strengthen your leadership and communication skills
- Apply quality control, engagement, and ethical requirements with confidence
- Learn to navigate real-world challenges with practical solutions
- Build the technical and professional skills that set great managers apart
Your Quest Path
Day 1 – Building Your Foundation
- 6 Levels
- 32 Missions
- Focus: Quality management, ethics, communication, human resources, and engagement performance.
Day 2 – Advancing Your Skills
- 7 Levels
- 25 Missions
- Focus: Audit approaches, internal control, risk assessment, group audits, leadership, mentoring, writing, and Excel.
Final Challenge – The Quiz
Your quest ends with the Final Level Quiz. To complete your journey and unlock your certificate, you must achieve a score of 80% or higher.
Your Reward
Complete the quest and earn a verifiable LEAF Blue certificate—proof of your growth and readiness to thrive as a manager.
Ready to Begin Your Quest?
Take the next step in your lifelong learning journey.
Elevating the standards of all auditors and those seeking to become auditors by upholding the principles of legislation, regulation, and quality audit management and performance.
Quests Curriculum
- 14 Levelss
- Coaching By LEAF
- Communities Support
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Levels 01 Day 1 - Introduction
Begin your Manager Quest with a quick video that outlines your path ahead. Discover what you’ll learn in Day 1, Day 2, and the Final Quiz, and how each mission will build the skills you need to grow from candidate auditor to confident manager. Mission(s) included in this level: 1. Introduction.
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Levels 02 Day 1 - Audit Basics
Master the core stages of an audit. From introduction and planning to fieldwork, completion, and working papers, this level guides you through the essential steps that form the backbone of every audit engagement. Mission(s) 2-7
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Levels 03 Day 1 -Quality Management Responsibility
Dive into the key principles that ensure audit quality. From risk assessment, governance, and ethics to engagement performance, resources, and monitoring, this level equips you with the skills to manage audits responsibly and uphold your firm’s standards. Mission(s) 9-15
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Levels 04 Day1-Ethical Requirement&Responsibility
Explore the ethical foundations of auditing. This level covers key parts of the professional code and applies them through practical scenarios, helping you understand your responsibilities and make ethical decisions with confidence. Mission(s) 16-20
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Levels 05 Day 1 - File Reviews and Supervision
Master the essentials of reviewing audit files and supervising engagements. This level guides you through documentation standards, example working paper outlines, review requirements, and common errors to ensure quality and accuracy in your work. Mission(s) 21-25
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Levels 06 Day 1 - Practical Review of WP
Apply your knowledge through hands-on review of working papers. Explore real examples across journals, PPE, and revenue, learning best practices to identify issues, improve documentation, and ensure audit quality. Mission(s) 26-32
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Levels 07 Day 2 - Introduction
Welcome to Day 2 of your Manager Audit Quest. Here you’ll focus on key professional skills needed for audit managers, revisit essential technical topics, and finish with a hands-on, engaging practical exercise called the “Audit Game.” Mission(s) 33
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Levels 08 Day 2 - Leadership, Coaching & Mentoring
Develop the leadership skills essential for audit managers. Learn effective coaching using the GROW model, build trust and give feedback, and explore mentoring strategies to guide your team to success. Mission(s) 34-39
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Levels 09 Day 2 - Business Writing
Sharpen your professional writing skills for audit managers. This level covers the basics of business writing, explores common business documents, and provides guidance on other key documents to communicate clearly and effectively in your role. Mission(s) 40-43
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Levels 10 Day 2: Excel Essentials
Master the Excel skills every audit manager needs. From basics and key functions to pivot tables and charts, this level helps you organize, analyze, and present audit data efficiently and effectively. Mission(s) 44-48
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Levels 11 Day 2 - Industries and Related Risks
Explore the unique risks across different industries and how they impact audits. This level also covers considerations for group audits, helping you identify, assess, and manage risks effectively in diverse business environments. Mission(s) 49-51
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Levels 12 Day 2 - The Audit Game
Put your skills to the test in a fun, interactive exercise. Get to know the client, request additional information, analyze financial data, and assess risks to decide the best audit approach—applying everything you’ve learned so far. Mission(s) 52-56
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Levels 13 Day 2 - Conclusion
Congratulations! You’ve completed the Manager Quest. This final level wraps up the key professional and technical skills you’ve learned, reflects on your journey, and prepares you to take the Final Quiz to earn your certificate. Mission(s) 57
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Levels 14 Final Quiz
Test everything you’ve learned throughout the Manager Quest. Achieve a score of 80% or higher to complete your journey and unlock your verifiable certificate, proving your readiness to thrive as a confident audit manager. Mission(s) 58