The difference between fraud, waste and abuse is a matter of degrees. Only fraud is a reportable condition under Yellow Book standards.
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Focus on a narrow audit objective
The 2018 version of the Yellow Book mentions audit objectives 163 times in one chapter on performance audits! That tells me that objectives run the show! And you know, the broader your audit objective, the longer your audit becomes and the harder your audit report is to write. A few years ago, I created […]
Blending the Green Book with the Yellow Book
Objectives: Identify the purpose of the GAO’s Green Book. Distinguish between components of internal control. Distinguish between management objectives Choose a finite subject matter on which to apply controls Identify the auditor’s responsibilities regarding application of the Green Book Most of the changes between the 2011 Yellow Book and the 2018 Yellow Book that we […]
The Most Important Change to the Yellow Book is the Green Book
I’ve had a few months to digest the changes to the 2018 Yellow Book (Government Auditing Standards),and I’ve taught a few seminars and webinars about the changes. Most of the changes do not shock my audiences. But I am noticing that quite a few auditors are not familiar with the Green Book which was published by […]
Yellow Book Ethics
Enjoy this excerpt from the self-study text: The Yellow Book Interpreted which qualifies for 15 hours of CPE. The GAO has a few things to say about a government auditor’s ethical responsibilities and, thus, added a large section on ethics to the 2007 revision of the Yellow Book. The same ethical principles appear in the 2017 […]
Fraudulent Disbursements – Billing Schemes and Payroll Schemes
More in the series on getting to know the fraud tree better. To get a better sense of where we are on the fraud tree and which branch we are talking about in this newsletter, please see the entire fraud tree at http://www.acfe.com/fraud-tree.aspx. Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the […]
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.
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.”
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