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Work Group Products
- A letter
written to us by Work Group Chairman George Strudgeon
that addresses the question about leveraging the SAA and the
IPIA - After careful consideration, the work group concluded
that it would be inappropriate for auditors to become
involved in developing the estimates of improper payments
required by IPIA because developing such estimates is
inherently a management responsibility that should not be
performed by auditors. As for a potential role for auditors
in validating the IPIA estimates, differences in scope,
objectives, and perspectives between the two acts make it
difficult to audit such
estimates at
the grantee level. Therefore, the work group did not make
any recommendations for how Single Audits can be leveraged
for purposes of developing
improper
payment estimates for grant programs.
However, the
work group did recommend that the Steering Committee
consider establishing a new work group to study how
Single Audit
results can best be used by
Federal
agencies in their IPIA program risk assessments and/or
program risk assessments in general.
View.
- A paper
entitled
Federal Audit Clearinghouse: Meeting Transparency Challenges,
which highlights the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities,
and threats facing the Clearinghouse so that decision makers
can develop the best practical improvements for the
Clearinghouse.
- A paper
that compares the SAA and the IPIA. View.
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