Public Financial Management: Audit and Compliance

Interest and purpose of the training

The purpose of this training is to give you an understanding of the different roles and purposes of audit and to enable you plan and commission audits. In addition, it will enable you to carry out some of the functions of the auditor and the training ranges over the spectrum of audit activities, drawing examples from detecting fraud to evaluating the success of policies.

Course outlines

• Public Sector Auditing
• Introduction to Auditing
• Accountability in the Public Sector
• The Public Finance Control System
• External Audit and Reporting
• Internal Audit and Control
• The Purposes of Budgetary Control
• Risk Assessment and a Systems-Based Approach
• Synthesis and recommendations
• Practical case study

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