Audit Tips

Each edition of Audit Tips highlights good practices and provides practical advice for performance auditors on a selected theme.

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Read our 100 Tips for Performance Auditors. This publication includes a compilation of tips from previous editions of our Audit Tips series. Our tips cover 15 different topics, from various aspects of the audit process to specific audit topics and new technologies that are changing the audit profession.

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5 Methods to Prevent Corruption That Can Be Audited

Corruption is defined as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain, including bribery. Corruption erodes trust, weakens democracy, hampers economic development and further exacerbates inequality, poverty, social division and the environmental crisis. Exposing corruption and holding the corrupt to account can only happen if we understand the way corruption works and the systems that enable it.

In this Audit Tips, we provide a quick overview of five methods commonly used to prevent corruption and suggestions on how they could be audited.

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Six Tips for Using Generative AI in Your Audits

Generative AI, like Gemini and ChatGPT, is transforming the audit profession by providing tools that enhance efficiency, streamline workflows, and uncover new insights.

In this Audit Tips, we summarize how auditors can harness the power of generative AI while maintaining professional integrity and delivering high-quality work.

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4 Change Drivers That Are Disrupting Ineffective Risk Management Practices

Risk management is rapidly evolving, from building exhaustive lists of risks to focussing on risks to the efficiency of operations.

In the latest edition of Audit Tips, we are focussing on factors that are displacing ineffective risk practices with objective-centric risk management.

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4 Reasons It Is Important to Audit Oil and Gas Revenues

Oil and gas revenues could be an important source of revenues for governments. Their assessment and collection are also complex and require adequate controls and safeguards.

In this Audit Tips, we review the key reasons why auditors in energy resources-rich jurisdictions should include them in their Strategic Audit Plan.

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7 Ways to Use the Audit News Database to Improve Your Audits

As one of the most comprehensive databases of public sector audits, CAAF’s Audit News database is a powerful tool that can help when planning, conducting and reporting an audit.

In this edition of Audit Tips, learn 7 ways to use Audit News to increase the efficiency and quality of audits.

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5 Methods to Prevent Corruption That Can Be Audited

AUDIT TIPS Archive

Six Tips for Using Generative AI in Your Audits

4 Change Drivers That Are Disrupting Ineffective Risk Management Practices

4 Reasons It Is Important to Audit Oil and Gas Revenues

7 Ways to Use the Audit News Database to Improve Your Audits

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5 Methods to Prevent Corruption That Can Be Audited

AUDIT TIPS Archive

Six Tips for Using Generative AI in Your Audits

4 Change Drivers That Are Disrupting Ineffective Risk Management Practices

4 Reasons It Is Important to Audit Oil and Gas Revenues

7 Ways to Use the Audit News Database to Improve Your Audits

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