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The Performance Audit Tool Belt- Re-Thinking and Imagining Performance Audit Methods

Course Category Audit

August 26, 2021

12:00 p.m.

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Virtual

This virtual course will be delivered regionally via Zoom.

Registration is open to insular government professionals.

Course Description

Performance auditing is both and art and a science. Performance auditors are generalists who deploy advanced interdisciplinary based methodologies and tools to “interpret realty” in order to execute effective root cause analysis necessary to develop objective audit conclusions and strong recommendations. This session “audits” common and emergent performance audit methodologies including the strengths and weaknesses of methods and strategic cost-benefit considerations. Learning objectives include a discussion of standards of evidence, auditor competency and skill requirements as well as the importance of investing in tools. The session highlights data analytics as a powerful and emergent tool in the auditor tool belt and highlights several case examples including an entertaining story about how auditors brought down a fraud scheme in Oregon.

What You Will Learn

Review common audit methodologies
Consider costs and benefits of audit approaches
Discuss evidence standards in auditing
Describe auditor competency and skill requirements
Review data analytics as tools for auditing
Understand audit discovery of fraud

Who Should Attend

APIPA conference sessions are intended for island government accountability professionals. Audit, budget, finance, accounting, and related management and staff members will find interest and value in this presentation.

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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August 26, 2021

12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

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CPEs - 2 Credit Hours

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Instructor

Kip R. Memmott

Salem, OR

Kip has approximately thirty years of auditing, consulting, and training experience at the international, federal, state, local government and private sector levels. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Utah and a Master of Arts degree with a certificate in Public History from Arizona State University, and is a graduate from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government’s Executives in State and Local Government executive education program and has earned a Certificate in Public Leadership from the Brookings Institute.

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