Learn how to craft clear and effective audit objectives that drive focused fieldwork and strong findings.

Understand how to identify, evaluate, and document criteria that meet Yellow Book requirements.

Learn how to match audit objectives with the correct methodology during audit planning, including sampling, interviews, and analytics.

A concise explanation of GASB 103, focusing on how the standard updates disclosure requirements and improves the clarity and consistency of information reported by state and local governments.

Determine whether your evidence is relevant, valid, and persuasive enough to support findings.

Learn essential documentation requirements for testimonial evidence.

A practical introduction to core IT concepts auditors must understand, including systems, networks, databases, and application controls.

Learn structured approaches to interviews that increase credibility and rapport.

Learn the five components of internal control and the seventeen underlying principles of GAO’s Green Book.

Learn common fraud schemes affecting grants, contracts, procurements, and benefits.

Examine methods for assessing control environment during audits.

Learn two methods to structure, index, reference, and cross-reference audit documentation so your files are clear, consistent, and easy for reviewers to follow.

Convert the evidence you have collected during fieldwork into strong Condition, Criteria, Cause, Effect, and Recommendation statements.

Review common documentation problems and learn practical solutions to improve work papers.

An overview of the major fraud theories, including the fraud triangle and fraud diamond, explaining how pressure, opportunity, and rationalization drive misconduct in government programs.

Explains attribute and variable sampling, sample size, selection techniques, and how to document sampling decisions in compliance with Yellow Book.

An introduction on how to use Excel's Power Query to analyze data, trends, and exceptions.