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Audit Findings

Course Category Audit

September 12, 2025

8:00 a.m.

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On-Site

This course will be delivered on-site in CNMI.

Registration is open to insular government professionals.

Course Description

A key challenge in reporting the results of performance audits is to formulate the report message from the audit data. An additional challenge is to then compile and sequence the audit facts to support that message. Using alternative methods, gain hands-on practice in marshaling the evidence from your audit into findings that answer the audit objectives and present the details in an understanding and convincing manner.

What You Will Learn

Explain the central role of effective audit objectives in finding development.
Define the role of performance aspects in audit findings.
Describe two finding paradigms used in performance auditing and the elements they contain.
Outline a finding and prepare a synopsis summarizing the audit results in response to the audit objectives.
Develop and present audit findings and related conclusions and recommendations.
Apply the Government Auditing Standards in the development of audit findings.

Who Should Attend

All auditors and oversight professionals with interest in developing audit findings to recommend improvements to government programs.

Tuition Fees

With funding support from the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs, courses are available free of charge for government accountability professionals within the insular areas. The course fee is waived and there is no cost to register and attend, Professionals who do not meet the above criteria, please contact [email protected].

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September 12, 2025

8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

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CPEs - 4 Credit Hours

On-Site, CNMI

TBD, CNMI

Panelists

Drummond Kahn

Portland, Oregon

Drummond Kahn serves on the faculty of the Graduate School USA, training auditors and financial managers in the U.S. and overseas. Since 1990, Mr. Kahn served in federal, state, and local government auditing positions.

Beth Schubert

Denver, Colorado

Beth Schubert is the Director of the Drinking Water Investments Directorate in the Environmental Protect Agency Office of Inspector General. Her directorate focuses on the objective oversight of programs that safeguard public health through safe drinking water protection which includes the oversight of approximately $35.7 Billion in funding provided through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. She has 22 years of federal auditing experience including approximately 12 years working with the U.S. Insular Islands. She has been with the EPA OIG for 3 years.

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