24 hours of CPE on Single Audits coming to a city near you in June. To find out more click here. Are you looking for a new specialty to add to your repertoire? Have you heard that the government is close to eclipsing the spending of proprietary entities? Government is where the money is, right? […]
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A Higher Purpose
Training budget cut? Yellowbook-CPE has a variety of fun-to-read courses so that you can earn your hours without the expense of travel. Click here to learn more! Most of my career has been in government, and I have the privilege of working for a variety of governments – federal and local. The stories I hear […]
Confessions of a Recovering Auditor OR Does He Win or Lose? Yes, He Does!
Confessions include be more confident and more precise when you make an assertion. Sample size has to go up and you must do more work.
Those Pesky Preconceived Ideas
Per the Yellow Book, “preconceived ideas toward individuals, groups, organizations, or objectives of a particular program that could bias the audit.”
Assessing Risk in the Government Environment
Auditors are used to assessing risk during external audits. In the governmental environment, auditors cannot look at just financial issues.
Confessions of a Recovering Auditor OR Ye Shall Know the Formula, and the Formula Shall Set Ye Free!
“The Formula,” in many ways, may be the only formula you really need: Sample size = Confidence x Variation / Precision!
Is Statistics a Criminal Act? Or Remember X… That Hated Letter In College?
Is statistics a criminal act? Or, remember X… that letter hated in college? Sometimes, things seem more complicated than they need to be!
Disseminator
I am a sharer, a disseminator, and a bug-like genetic slave to my professional function as a teacher and an author.
Common audit challenges
Think of me as a little bee, flitting from flower to flower, spreading delicate yellow pollen to overcome common audit challenges.