Heart Burn Inducing Clauses of the Yellow Book
The GAO’s Yellow Book standards set a high bar for auditors of government programs. This session of the Yellow Book that challenge performance auditors including the CPE, quality control, independence, and reporting requirements.
Course objectives include:
- Identify audit planning steps required by the GAO
- Define requirements for peer review and quality control
- Apply the current independence standards to your team
- Outline the five elements of the finding for a performance audit scenario
- Label reportable conditions as abuse, fraud, non-compliance, & an internal control weakness
- Discuss the 2017 Exposure Draft of the Yellow Book Revision
The Art of the Finding
By using a few key guidelines on content and organization, your audit team can create an audit report masterpiece! Short, clear, and impactful findings can be completed and vetted in a matter of hours, not weeks! This course is centered on the IIA guidance and GAO requirements regarding audit findings and reports.
Course objectives include:
- Generate concise and logical findings in an hour or less
- Choose the strongest content for your finding
- Justify how much detail to share in the report
- Quantify findings for maximum impact and clarity
- Create auditable and feasible recommendations
- Edit findings and provide meaningful feedback
Green Book Internal Controls
How do you make sure bad things don’t happen? Controls! In this workshop, learn how to define risks and apply controls to mitigate the risks – without creating a burdensome bureaucracy. The GAO’s 2014 Green Book (Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government) will be our guide.
Course objectives include:
- Define business risks
- Apply the Green Book and COSO model to those risk
- Determine if the Green Book is applicable to your operations
- Determine when application of the Green Book is required
BIO
Leita Hart-Fanta, CPA, CGAP, CGFM has developed curriculum and taught seminars for hundreds of audit teams including Walmart, Schlumberger, Valero, Sandia Labs, the Veteran’s Administration, the University of Texas and the City of San Francisco. She also teaches courses for local IIA Chapters around the country. Leita started her audit career in public accounting and regularly conducts training for CPA firms on auditing standards. She is the author of over a dozen books on auditing and accounting, including essential audit skills, risk assessment, audit reporting, audit standards, and accounting essentials.
Leita’s two best sellers are the McGraw-Hill book “Accounting Demystified” and the self-study course “The Yellow Book Interpreted.” Leita is an experienced facilitator, having led over 1200 full or multi-day seminars. She has also keynoted numerous conferences and developed over 25 distinct courses and speeches.
She was named an “Outstanding Presenter” by the Institute of Internal Auditors in 2014. She is the founder of Yellowbook-CPE.com, a website that offers self-study courses for auditors and IndieAccountants, a marketplace website for accounting and auditing services. She is currently writing a self-study book on internal controls. She lives with her fishing obsessed husband and two beautiful tween daughters in Austin, Texas.