Description
Selecting performance audits to conduct is like building a successful investment portfolio. Developing meaningful objectives helps ensure each audit efficiently and effectively achieves meaningful results. Together, selecting the right audits and clear objectives provide a return on investment that is highly valued, relevant, and meaningful to the stakeholders it serves. Explore techniques and factors for selecting and planning audits based upon measurable factors of risk, materiality, public interest, and public benefit as valued by its many stakeholders. You will identify stakeholder interest and needs, future opportunities, and external threats; apply a cost benefit approach using measures of outcome value to score proposals; and formulate compelling audit objectives leading to meaningful specific future-oriented recommendations of value. This course is part of the Certified Government Auditor (CGA) program, Level 3.Duration
1 day
Level
AdvancedWho Should Attend?
All auditors, evaluators, analysts and executives who are responsible for developing, proposing or selecting audit/evaluation topics, and for developing specific audit/evaluation objectives.Credits
0.6 CEU's, 8 CPE'sLearning Outcomes
Apply strategic customer value in assessing desired stakeholder needs
Perform a SWOT analysis and logic model to consider audit topic objectives
Use internal and external risk assessment to identify areas of vulnerability and opportunity as criteria for scoring potential audit benefits and results
Apply a cost/benefit approach to score the potential value of audit proposals
Describe the central role of objectives in performance auditing
Write objectives that provide clear direction for planning fieldwork, assigning staff, facilitating report writing and meeting auditing standards
Track audit progress and measure actual results
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Other Recommended Courses
- Effective Audit Resolution, Follow-up and Implementation (AUDT8034)
- Skills for Leading and Managing Audit Projects (AUDT9109)
- Auditing Performance Outcomes (AUDT9012)
- Managing the Audit Engagement (AUDT9102)
