Auditor Roles Articles

Auditors Adding Value Series

Performance Management Systems Offer High Value Audit Opportunities (GAP News, 1st quarter, 2008) NEW!
To change “managing for results” from a slogan to a reality, organizations must establish an effective performance management system that feeds back measured results into decisions. Auditors can help make that happen ... more

Add Value to Government Performance and Performance Audits (GAP News, 3rd quarter, 2007) NEW!
Leaders in the field have found testing performance measures and data to be a faster practice to conduct than performance auditing, and, sometimes, a more far-reaching audit tool that complementsa regular program of performance auditing ... more

More Articles to Help Auditors Play these Roles

Reaching Out to Managers, Elected Officials, and Citizens Makes Auditors Effective Agents of Change and Accountability (AuditorRoles.org, June 2007) While some audit executives may see their role purely as auditing management’s systems after they are implemented or changed, others have taken a more active role, both to encourage systems change and to contribute the special skills of their audit staff to help ensure more effective, accountable systems are developed. … more  

GASB in the U.S. and PSAB in Canada Move Toward Recommending Government Performance Reporting Practices (AuditorRoles.org, June 2007)
More governments have been issuing public performance reports, but are the reports useful to citizens and elected officials, and is the information in them relevant and reliable? As an auditor, whether you approach performance reporting as an attester, a preparer, or both, news from North American standards setting organizations is important to your practice ... more

The IIA Partners with ALGA & NASACT to Launch a Project to Spread Best Practices (AuditorRoles.org, June 2007)
Creative auditors have shown they can move performance management and accountability of their governments noticeably forward when they help improve performance measurement and how it is used. While these government auditors have used the long-established practice of performance auditing, they have also gone well beyond that and engaged in a wide array of newer, less-used practices. ... more