Mission and Objectives
Our objectives will include the following:
- Enhancing the financial health of the City and providing stewardship of its resources
- Supporting/working with management to improve the city’s operations, identify areas where cost could be saved, and assure management of the efficiency and effectiveness of government programs/activities.
- We shall also provide independent assurance to management on the existence, efficiency, and effectiveness of the city’s internal control system through our various control monitoring and testing activities.
- The internal audit unit shall also provide consulting services to management: training in areas around risk assessment, internal control assessment, and other advisory services on the agency’s programs.
- Doing all of these and many others aims at assisting and supporting organizational units in achieving their goals and objectives.
Standards
The Department adheres to the Government Auditing Standards, 2018 Revision (the “Yellow Book”) promulgated by the Comptroller General of the United States. These standards, referred to as generally accepted government auditing standards, “pertain to auditors’ professional qualifications, the quality of audit effort, and the characteristics of professional and meaningful audit reports.”
Code of Ethics
Government Auditing Standards (GAS 1.12) states "Conducting audit work in accordance with ethical principles is a matter of personal and organizational responsibility. Ethical principles apply in preserving auditor independence, taking on only work that the auditor is competent to perform, performing high-quality work, and following the applicable standards cited in the audit report.