Essential Skills for the
Beginning Government Auditor
$70 includes self-study manual and online quiz for 7 hours of CPE credit.
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WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THIS COURSE
"Very well-written course with plenty of references to professional standards, making them understandable and relevant to actual practice."
—University Internal Audit Director, 12/10
"I thought you did a really good job of differentiating between a good idea, and almost-mandatory-good-idea, and a standard." —State Legislative Auditor, 12/10
"This course is extremely relevant for beginning government auditors. It is well-supported with positive examples of what every beginning auditor experiences. The examples help reassure auditors who today face the same issues Leita explained about her life as an auditor. It was interesting, humorous, but to the point…"
—CPA Firm Auditor, 12/10
"I found the control summary and risk assessment very helpful and will refer to this area… on my next assignment." —County Internal Auditor, 12/10
Auditing is about balancing objectives and procedures while focusing on the larger goalsof risk mitigation and fraud detection. Government Auditing Skills starts at the ground level and leads the governmental auditor through the entire audit process, step-by-step. Frequent references to the GAO’s Government Auditing Standards emphasize important concepts. Topics include gathering information about the audit client, assessing risk, identifying audit criteria and objectives, honing interviewing skills and client relations,examining working papers, and writing reports. The course features expert advice, the importance of each step in an audit, and case studies that illustrate the good and the bad. This is an ideal course for recent graduates or those new to performing government audits.
Objectives:
- Compose a finding or audit issue
- Choose how to gather evidence for your audit conclusions
- Apply a simple risk assessment model to your audit subject
- Document what you've done in the working papers
- Name which standards you must follow
- Recognize when to discuss issues with your supervisor
- Distinguish between over-auditing and under-auditing
- Describe yellow book (GAGAS) performance and financial audit requirements
- Breakdown the steps in the governmental auditing process
- Explain the planning standards and how to comply
- Illustrate the fieldwork and working papers standards and how to comply
- Apply the reporting standards to example reports and scenarios
Program level: beginning
177 pages of text
Instructional method: Self-study text with online quiz
NASBA Category ofStudy: Auditing (Governmental)
Advance preparation:None
Who should attend: Auditors with less than one year of government audit experience. Auditors and monitors of governmental funds and programs who need to understand how toapply governmental auditing standards to their work and recipients of governmental funds who undergo auditing or monitoring from an oversight orgranting agency.
Recommended CPE credit: 7 hours
This course qualifies for Yellow Book CPE credit.
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