Selecting and Planning Audits for Return on Investment Course (Self-Paced)

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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.

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This course includes

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Answers from real instructors
Proprietary workbook included
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Verified digital certificate of completion
Learn at an accredited institution

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Selecting and Planning Audits for Return on Investment Course (Self-Paced) Curriculum

What You'll Learn at a Glance

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.

Course Syllabus

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Module 1: Introduction

Overview of performance audit phases
Understanding the role and responsibilities of performance auditors
Identifying key factors for audit success and failure

Module 2: Strategic Customer Value Analysis to Outcomes

Analyzing stakeholder value and identifying end users
Applying SWOT and Logic Model analyses for audit selection
Setting strategic directions for meaningful audits

Module 3: Audit Selection Phase—Measuring Risk and Return

Conducting internal and external risk assessments
Identifying and scoring audit benefits versus costs
Applying a structured method for prioritizing audits based on ROI

Module 4: Planning Phase—Formulating Audit Objectives

Articulating clear and measurable audit objectives
Identifying necessary data through precise sub-objectives
Ensuring audit objectives align with intended outcomes and user needs

Module 5: Tracking Audit Progress and Performance Measurement

Monitoring audit milestones and outcomes
Using tools such as Gantt charts to visualize audit progress
Evaluating audit effectiveness and measuring actual results

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