This virtual course is being broadcast simultaneously from the FPS classroom/in-person version of this course.

This newly designed course will take you through the full audit process when dealing with government auditors.  As with any audit, questions arise and the amount of documentation and requests can be enormously burdensome. However, this class will take you through some tips and tricks so as you can be more effective in answering questions and developing responses to ensure a smooth audit process.  

You will learn to:

• Establish communications framework for internal and external stakeholders – this includes a pre-step to have fluent communication with cognizant auditor and customer to establish a calendar for audits needed during the year
• Internal planning
• Pre-audit steps to set up for success
• Understand auditor intent
  • Developing auditor on-boarding materials – including presentations for auditors to understand structure/context to ensure requests are applicable while helping to reduce follow up questions w/ auditors.
  • Establishing control points and key considerations for providing documentation
• How (and when) to “push back” effectively (stories of when it went well and when it went poorly)
• Establish corrective actions
• Maintain working relationship and getting to resolution