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A compliance audit is a comprehensive assessment of an organization’s observance of regulatory guidelines. Compliance government auditors are trained to ensure that employees or individuals comply with relevant compliance rules, laws, regulations, and policies designed to achieve specific organizational goals. Compliance auditors determine whether a process has followed applicable rules or not. If rules are not followed, the auditor determines the causes and recommends corrective actions to prevent future occurrences. For accountability and transparency, statistics show that demand for more improved compliance auditors’ skills is needed to implement the increasing number of established rules and regulatory policies within various government departments including healthcare, environmental, employment, government grant programs, insurance, education, pension’s benefits, government tax codes, etc. Finally, the training will show course participants the important role the government compliance auditing can play in helping to alleviate the increasing problems of corrupt practices in governance.
Course Learning Objectives:
This course is designed to enhance the skills and efficiency of government officials whose jobs are to make sure that employees, contractors, is individuals comply with the relevant rules and regulations in government.
Course Content:
The course is delivered in a workshop format and facilitated by seasoned professional instructors with practical experience. The course takes 2 weeks to complete. Key areas of study include the following:
Key areas of training for I and 2 weeks organized into the following modules:
Orientation
•Registration
•Organization’s Background
•Schedule of Activities
•Ground Rules
•Dos & Don’ts Rules and Regulations
•Logistics
Overview and expectations of the course
•Understand the basic concepts:
•Compliance rules
•Laws
•Regulations
•Policies that all employees can comply
•Fulfillment of organizational mission statements and objectives
Phases of a Compliance Audit
•Identify phases of performance and compliance audits:
•Planning
•Risk assessment
•Audit program design
•Fieldwork
•Documenting, and
•Audit report writing
•Risks and internal control assessments
Governmental Accounting and Reporting
•Identifying top accounting and auditing issues in the governmental statements
•Assessing financial viability
•Analyzing financial statements
Compliance Auditing in Organizational Structure
•Compliance with federal, state, and local government laws, and nonprofit organizations
•An organization’s published “Standards of Conduct” guide
•Concepts of governmental accounting and reporting
•Understand the characteristics of internal control over compliance
•Role of the compliance officer, compliance committee, the governing body,
Effective Compliance Communication and Reporting
•Analyze the nature of the “Finding” and the determined impacts
•Using Pareto Analysis
•Compliance investigation and corrective action plan
•Role of budgets
Improving Your Skills on Conducting EffectiveAaudits
•Identifying some of the common frauds found in the governmental sector and how to improve your skills to detect and prevent them
•Techniques for conducting an audit
•Gain insights on how to manage the audit process including conducting effective audit meetings and providing effective audit reports
•Identifying some of the common frauds found in the governmental sector
•How to improve your skills to detect and prevent them
•Techniques for conducting an audit
•Gain insights on how to manage the audit process including conducting Effective audit meetings and providing effective audit reports
Effective Audit Reporting
•Writing effective audit reports
•Preparing government compliance auditing reports
Best Practices
•Case studies
•Exercises and group projects
•Group presentations
Wrap Up
•Course evaluation
•End of the course
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the course, participants should be able to:
1.Have a good understanding of the role of government compliance auditing
2.Plan, design, and conduct effective compliance government audits
Learning Methodology:
These training workshops will be very interactive. PowerPoint presentations will feature well in the workshops. Participants will spend much of their time on presentations, analyzing case studies, and be doing group work and discussions.
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed for senior and mid-level professionals/civil servants including auditors, public accountants, attorneys, internal auditors, and any individuals who are interested in upgrading their skills in Government Compliance auditing.
Course Duration:
2 weeks
Training Locations
(a)Stamford, CT, USA
(b)New York City, USA
(c)Washington, DC, USA (d) Toronto, Canada (e) Lagos, Nigeria (f) Nairobi, Kenya (g) Dubai, UAE
Scheduled Dates:
Jan 6-17; Jun 15-26; Oct 19-30, 2023
Course Materials
Course materials include PowerPoint presentation slides, carefully selected reading materials, exercises, case studies, reading references, and a laptop computer.
Course Fees
The course fee is $4,700 USD for 2 weeks. The course fee covers the following: instruction, course materials, one brand new laptop computer to take home, administration expenses, field trips, cultural programs and miscellaneous program-related expenses.
How to Register
To receive a letter of invitation and supporting documents, you must complete and forward the registration form to the training director as soon as possible. To participate in this course, the applicant must:
- Send a completed application form
- Have a bachelor’s degree/or have relevant work experience at senior management level
- Be nominated by the head of his/her department
- Be a senior member of the department/organization
- Demonstrate a devoted interest in the course
- Have proof of English proficiency
- Demonstrate proof of financial sponsorship of the course.
CONTACT US:
For more information, please contact:
Center for Executive Training and International Development
295 Madison Avenue
12th Floor
New York, NY 10017, USA
Phone: +917 753 7225, +602 684 3228
Email: admin@cetid.net
Website: www.cetid.net
