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Potential Benefits of an Audit

  • Objective assessment of areas of interest to the Board of Supervisors and management.
  • Confirmation that controls and procedures are satisfactory.
  • Identification of deviations from Board policies or management's standards and expectations.
  • Identification of controls that need improvement.
  • Recognized improvements to accounting controls to prevent and detect problems.
  • Ideas to eliminate redundant or burdensome controls.
  • Identification of productivity enhancements.
  • Recognized opportunities to automate procedures.
  • Confidence in the use or design of electronic data processing systems.
  • Confidence in personal computer applications.
  • Recoveries of unbilled or underbilled revenues.
  • Recoveries of contractor overcharges.
  • Early detection of problems before they come to the attention of others.