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 provides 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 III.
Students should have experience with risk assessments, SWOT analysis, and formulating clear audit objectives. Familiarity with performance measurement tools, such as Gantt charts, is also recommended.
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