Government Audit Training – Video Course

Description

Government Audit Training – Video Course includes 9 online videos and a self-study manual including presentation slides for 7.5 hours of CPE credit.

This 9-video series will give you the confidence you need to take on any audit assignment.

As we cover the key steps of performing an audit – including risk assessment, objective setting, evidence gathering, audit documentation, and audit reporting – your knowledge of how your work fits into the whole audit will be fortified. You will ‘get’ why your audit supervisor keeps asking you to do certain things.

After this government audit training, you might even be able to teach that smarty-pants on your audit team a thing or two when we are done.

But this class isn’t only for new auditors – it is helpful for new auditors and experienced auditors alike. Yes, new auditors experience unfamiliar skills for the first time, but experienced auditors will also benefit as they recognize and resolve unproductive habits.

Frequent references to applicable audit standards (from the IIA, GAO, or AICPA) will keep us grounded.

This video series is designed primarily for performance auditors, but the concepts are applicable to financial auditors as well.

Course objectives include:

• Identify applicable audit standards
• Sequence the steps of an audit
• Recognize components of the GAO’s performance audit promise
• Choose relevant audit criteria
• Identify components of a good audit objective
• Identify the difference between a performance aspect and a criteria
• Identify the elements of a finding
• Identify qualities of a strong finding
• Identify sources of information
• Identify how to scope or break the universe into pieces
• Distinguish between the steps of a process and a control
• Distinguish between types of inherent risk
• Identify the components of control per the Green Book/COSO model
• Evaluate a methodology for pointedness, strength, cost, and difficulty
• Identify the standards for working paper documentation

Program level: Basic
Instructional method: Video with online qualified assessment. QAS SS
NASBA Category of Study: Auditing (Governmental)
Advance preparation: None
Prerequisites: None
Who should attend: Auditors of government programs
CPE Credit Hours: 7.5
Author: Leita Hart-Fanta, CPA

This course is also included in the Essential Skills Bundle and the Performance Audit Essentials Bundle.

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