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• Audit Mandates

  • Follow-the-Money Audit Mandates: Closing an Accountability Gap
  • Establish an Independent Auditor General for the City of Vancouver

• Audit Planning

  Publications Approaches to Audit Selection and Multi-Year Planning – A Discussion Paper

  Training Evidence Collection and Analysis Leading Successful Audits Managing Audit Projects

• Comptrollership

  • Report of the Independent Review Panel on Modernization of Comptrollership in the Government of Canada

• Efficiency

  • Practice Guide To Auditing Efficiency

    To further support auditors, this Guide is complemented by two Applied Guides, which contain potential audit objectives, audit criteria, and audit procedures for auditing the efficiency of two common government functions: Auditing the Efficiency of Applications Processes for Government Programs or Licenses and Auditing the Efficiency of a Regulatory Inspection and Enforcement Function

  • Focus On Efficiency

• Environmental Auditing

  • How to Increase the Impact of Environmental Performance Audits – A Discussion Paper

• First Nations

  • Establishing a First Nations Auditor General

• Gender Equality

  Publications Practice Guide to Auditing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – Gender Equality Practice Guide to Auditing Gender Equality

  Training Auditing Gender-Based Analysis+ (GBA+)

  Webinars Auditing Progress Toward the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals – October 13, 2020 2-3pm EDT

• Human Resource Management

  • Focus On Human Resource Management

• Information Technology

  Publications Artificial Intelligence and Auditing: Overview of Potential Impact on Public Sector Auditors Blockchain and Audit: Overview of Potential Impact on Legislative Audit Focus On Information Technology Security

  Webinars Using Artificial Intelligence in Times of Crisis – September 29, 2020 2-3pm EDT Creating Opportunities for Today: Connecting Data, Workflows and Results – August 11, 2020 Using Artificial Intelligence in Audits – June 9, 2020

• Organizational Culture

  Publications Auditing Organizational Culture in the Public Sector

  Webinars A Key Feature of Your Next Audit Plan: Auditing Culture in the Public Sector – Nov. 17, 2020 Auditing Organizational Culture – May 12, 2020

• Oversight

  • How Researchers Assigned to Public Accounts Committees Can Strengthen Oversight
  • Good Practices to Strengthen Municipal Audit Committees for Municipalities with an Auditor General
  • Measuring Accountability: CAAF’s 2018 Survey of Public Accounts Committees in Canada
  • The PAC Perspective – Insights from Our Recent Survey of Public Accounts Committee Members and Clerks
  • Accountability in Action: Good Practices for Effective Public Accounts Committees
  • Building and Sustaining Effective Auditor General–Public Accounts Committee Relationships – A Discussion Paper
  • Practice Guide to Auditing Oversight
  • The Attributes of an Effective Public Accounts Committee
  • Sharing International Practices – A Profile of the Legislative Oversight Committee of Scotland
  • Parliamentary Oversight – Committees and Relationships – A Guide to Strengthening Public Accounts Committees
  • Going Public: Leadership for Transparent Government
  • Proposed Guidance for Audit Committees in the Public Sector – August 2005

• Performance Budgeting

  • Institutional Foundations for Performance Budgeting: The Case of the Government of Canada

• Performance Reporting

  Publications The Impact of Performance Audits: Defining, Measuring and Reporting Impact Consultations on Improving Public Performance Reports in Alberta: What We Heard – July 2008 Ideas for Increasing Media Use of Public Performance Reports Public Performance Reporting: A Management Perspective Reporting Principles: Taking Public Performance and Reporting to a New Level Users and Uses: Towards Producing and Using Better Public Performance Reporting What Can We Learn From Effective Public Reporting? Good Practices for Central Agencies, Legislators, Auditors, and Report Producers

  Training Effective Report Writing Audit Boot Camp

• Procurement

  • Focus On Large Procurement Projects

• Public Private Partnerships

  • Auditing Public-Private Partnerships – A Discussion Paper

• Public Sector Innovation / Risk Management

  • The Innovation Bargain in Action at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
  • How Statistics Canada Encourages Innovation
  • Innovation, Risk and Control: A Public Sector Guide to Encouraging Innovation, Understanding, Control, Managing Risk, Reducing Red Tap... and Delivering Better Results for Citizens
  • Taking Chances: Finding Ways to Embrace Innovation, Risk and Control in Public Sector Organizations

• Resource Extraction

  • Practice Guide to Auditing Mining Revenues and Financial Assurances for Site Remediation
  • Practice Guide to Auditing Oil and Gas Revenues and Financial Assurances for Site Remediation

• Root Cause Analysis

  Publications Better Integrating Root Cause Analysis into Public Sector Performance Auditing – 2nd Edition

  Training Root Cause Analysis

  Webinars Root Cause Analysis in Audits – April 14, 2020

• Stakeholder Engagement

  • Collaborating for Change: Tools for Collaboration
    • Editable pre-engagement questionnaire
    • Editable pre-engagement checklist
  • Collaborating for Change: Understanding Performance Audit
  • Citizen Engagement in the Performance Audit Process

• General Reference

  • 100 Tips for Performance Auditors
  • The Performance Audit Guidance Inventory – A Compilation of Recent Audit Guidance Documents from Around the World
  • Accountability, Performance Reporting, Comprehensive Audit – An Integrated Perspective
  • Proficiency Requirements for Comprehensive Auditing – A Guide for Practitioners
  • Proficiency Requirements for Comprehensive Auditing – A Reference Guide