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- 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.