OSC Guidance and Training for Internal Audit and Internal Control Practitioners Tina Kim John Buyce
Training Requirements for Auditors and Internal Control Professionals
Yellow Book: Chapter 3 General Standards: Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Minimum of 24 hours of CPE every 2 years Government Specific or unique environment Auditing standards and applicable accounting principles Additional 56 hours of CPE for auditors involved in Planning, directing, or reporting on GAGAS assignments; or Charge 20 percent or more of time annually to GAGAS assignments Minimum of 20 hours of CPE each year 3
Red Book: Attribute Standards: 1230 Continuing Professional Development Internal auditors must enhance their knowledge, skills, and other competencies through continuing professional development. PA 1230-1: Internal auditors with professional certifications are responsible for obtaining sufficient CPE to satisfy requirements related to the professional certification held.
NYS Internal Control Task Force: Continuing Professional Education To be effective in a changing world, all audit staff need to maintain and enhance their technical competence through a program of continuing education. Professional audit standards, as well as various professional licensing programs including the Certified Internal Auditor and the Certified Public Accountant are all subject to periodic continuing education requirements. The Internal Control Task Force report provides an extensive discussion on the need for continuing education and training of the State s internal auditors. The consensus recommendation is that each auditor is required to obtain at least 80 hours of continuing professional education every two years, with not less than 20 hours obtained during any single year. This requirement is consistent with the level of training required of other professionals conducting audits of government programs. The Task Force report appendix entitled Guidance on Continuing Education Requirements for New York State Internal Auditors provides a more detailed discussion of these requirements, and is incorporated by reference as part of these standards.
The Basics Keeping up with Changes in Standards and the Profession
IIA IPPF2015
GAO Green Book 2014 All requirements from the 1999 Green Book have been incorporated in the 2014 revision. The 2014 revision provides more detail of the requirements to help management better understand and implement the standards. The 2014 revision will be effective beginning with fiscal year 2016 and the Federal Managers Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA) reports covering that year. Management, at its discretion, may elect early adoption of the 2014 Green Book.
GAO Fraud Risk Framework 2015 The Framework complements existing federal efforts, including the revised Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government (effective Oct. 1, 2015); improper-payments legislation; and Office of Management and Budget guidance on improper payments (OMB A-123). However, the Framework is fraudspecific and applies to nonfinancial, as well as financial, fraud risks.
OMB Uniform Guidance Implementation of Uniform Guidance Compliance testing (affects all 2015 engagements) New audit requirements (affects primarily 12/31/15 year-ends and beyond. Complex transitional requirements Year-ends ending after December 26, 2014 and before December 26, 2015 (e.g., March 31, 2015, June 30, 2015, and September 30, 2015 year-ends) Non-federal entities will have to adopt new administrative requirements and cost principles relating to all new federal awards and to funding increments to existing awards Single audit requirements continue to use old regulation (i.e., OMB Circular A-133) Auditor compliance testing will be affected by client adoption of new UG regulation (i.e., will likely have to test some awards subject to the old OMB Circulars and some the new UG regulation) December 31, 2015, year-ends and beyond New single audit requirements (subpart F) apply Auditors may have to test some awards subject to the old OMB Circulars and some the new UG regulation for several years
2015 State & Local Government Developments GASB Statements Issued Stmt 73: Non-Trust Pensions Stmt 74: OBEP Plans Stmt 75: OPEB (employers) Stmt 76: GAAP Hierarchy Stmt 77: Tax Abatement Disclosures GASB Implementation Guide: 2015-1
Standards and Guidance Webinars 2015 Webinar Topic Date Presenter(s) GAO Yellow Book Webinar January 2015 Eric Holbrook (GAO) GAO Green Book Webinar Good Governance in the Public Sector May 19, 2015 June 16, 2015 Christie A. Pugnetti (GAO) Vincent Tophoff (IFAC) Enterprise Risk Management October 29, 2015 Mike Wetklow (OMB)
Building a Strong Foundation The Fundamentals
Red Book-Yellow Book Comparison The purpose of the second edition of this document is to provide updated information related to identifying similar principles and key differences between each organization s standards. In addition, the document is designed to provide suggestions for consideration should a government internal audit organization be required to or elect to comply with both organizations standards in conducting audit work.
Ensuring a Standards Conscious Organization Certified Internal Auditor Training This is an SGA initiative directed towards developing auditor skills through obtaining the Certified Internal Auditor certification. This certification will improve the audit skills and knowledge of the audit staff. 2 Classes: One in NYC and one in Albany Participants: 69 auditors. On the Job Training Quality Assurance Review Team
Collaboration and Benchmarking Learning and Sharing with Others
Benchmarking and Learning from Others The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board Using unstructured data for risk management Government Accountability Office Applied research and methods General Services Administration Mobile and government innovations Other States through NASACT The state of data analytics
Sharing our Expertise and Learning from Others Indonesia Public Private Partnerships China Benchmarking Taiwan Environmental Audit Korea Participatory Audit Japan Training of Internal Auditors Germany Use of Data Analytics for Operational Decision Making Other States (MA, NJ) Participating in Professional Conferences
Learning New Skills
What are we working on now ARC GIS Unstructured Data Network Analysis Predictive Analytics
OSC s Initiative to Support Internal Audit and Internal Control Professionals
Fall of 2015 White Collar Fraud - Protect Yourself Enterprise Risk Management Investigative Interviewing Uncovering Fraud With Financial and Ratio Analysis There is no cost for the training, and CPEs are available for all classes 250 seats available for State and City Agency Staff
Upcoming Training Investigative Interviewing Presenter - Rich Byington, John Reid and Associates, Inc. November 19-20, 2015 (2-day class) CPEs: 14 Uncovering Fraud with Financial and Ratio Analysis Presenter - ACFE Course Level - Advanced Albany - Dec 2015 (exact date TBD), NYC - Nov 2015 (exact date TBD) CPEs: 14