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Audit Course

Conducting Performance Audits

July 30, 2025

Drummond Kahn

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All Marshall Islands participants welcome to sign up.

Marshall Islands

Gain a strong foundation in the theory, principles, and methodology for conducting performance audits in accordance with the Government Auditing Standards. Focus exclusively on the knowledge and skills needed for performance auditing: the expectations of public sector auditors; the purposes and types of performance audits; the role of audit objectives; risk and individual control assessment; the types and tests of audit evidence; methods of evidence collection and documentation; and the types and elements of performance audit findings and applicable elements of those findings. Practice audit techniques and developing audit findings through a series of public sector case-study exercises.

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Audit Course

Assessing Financial Activities and Controls

July 28 - 30, 2025

Drummond Kahn

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All Marshall Islands participants welcome to sign up.

Marshall Islands

Gain the skills necessary to audit financial-related activities and controls on a systems-procedure and results-outcome basis in accordance with auditing and internal control standards. Learn to plan and conduct audits of eight common financial activities:

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Audit Course

Red Flags of Infrastructure Fraud

March 12, 2025

Michael Binder

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All Kosrae participants welcome to sign up.

Kosrae

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) provides $1.2 trillion in federal spending over the next five years mostly in grants and contracts to states and local governments for public transit, railways, power grids, electric vehicles and buses, ferries, airports, waterways, climate change, broadband internet, environmental protection, drinking water, and transformation safety. This program of fast-moving money, with untested controls, provides vast opportunities for fraud and waste. Auditors, investigators, and grants and contract managers at all levels of government will need to be especially vigilant for possible schemes and red flag indicators of fraud that robs the public of funds and performance.

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Audit Course

Effective Audit Resolution, Follow up and Implementation

March 11, 2025

Michael Binder

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All Kosrae participants welcome to sign up.

Kosrae

Audit resolution, follow-up, implementation, and reporting is a responsibility shared by the audit organization, the auditee organization follow-up coordinator and action officials. This responsibility is described in a variety of laws and OMB Circulars to provide a basis for accountability of the audited entities in responding to audit recommendations, reaching resolution and implementing the agreed upon corrective actions to reduce the risk of loss, improve operational performance and financial integrity in all levels of government.

This course will explore the statutes, guidance and standards for audit recommendations, resolution, follow-up progress, monitoring and reporting. It will also define the roles and responsibilities of the audit organization and those designated to perform follow-up, implementation and congressional reporting and budget submission functions.

This course is part of the Master Certificate in Federal Financial Management

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Audit Course

Quick Response Auditing

March 10, 2025

Drummond Kahn

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All CNMI participants welcome to sign up.

CNMI

Urgent questions and concerns require quick audit response while maintaining quality, focusing on user needs, and conforming to the Government Auditing Standards. Determine when it is appropriate and how to offer clients alternatives to classic “full scope” audit coverage, and how to establish an auditor-client relationship conducive to quick delivery of products. Learn how to tailor audit objectives, approaches and products to better meet immediate client needs. Drawing on multiple case studies, learn to write focused objectives with limited scope to facilitate quick field work, timely reporting, and meaningful results to satisfy the client or stakeholder needs.

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Photos from recent activities hosted by the Pacific and Virgin Islands Training Initiatives (PITI-VITI) in support of conferences, training and leadership development, are available below.