This article was originally published by Barrett and Greene, Inc. featuring Leita Hart-Fanta and her efforts to make all auditors aware of new GAO standards.
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7 Ways to Love Your Audit Team
These 7 ideas for loving on your team are the secrets of retaining and motivating good auditors. When you love on your team, you not only build morale, you reinforce quality, trust, and commitment to the audit mission.
6 Threats to Audit Quality
Discover the 6 threats to audit quality that often go unspoken and how to spot the risks outlined in the GAO Yellow Book.
6 Quality Objectives for Government Engagements
Chapter 5 of the 2024 Yellow Book specifies 6 engagement quality objectives. Audit teams use these objectives to assess quality risk and design responses to address those risks. Be careful… These objectives overlap quite a bit!
7 Steps of Quality Management
The 2024 Yellow Book lays out 7 steps of quality management for government audits. This summary will help jumpstart your compliance journey.
The Self-Interest Threat
In order to keep their jobs, auditors must moderate the information in their audit reports. This creates a self-interest threat to independence.
When Is the GAO Yellow Book Applicable?
In this episode of THE SAMPLE, Leita Hart-Fanta, CPA discusses when to apply the GAO Yellow Book to your audit.
How Much Yellow Book CPE Should I Earn?
In this episode of THE SAMPLE, Leita Hart-Fanta, CPA answers the question, “How Much Yellow Book CPE Should I Earn?”
When is the Yellow Book Applicable?
A law, regulation, or policy has to call the yellow book into play for it to be applicable. You can audit a government, but not have to use the government auditing standards.










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