Peer Review Reports

Upon taking office Auditor Bump called on the National Association of State Auditors to conduct a peer review of the OSA. A peer review is a periodic review, performed by a team of auditors from other states, of an agency’s quality control system in auditing. Peer reviews are intended to maintain and improve the quality of the auditing services performed by the agency.

The peer review found that the OSA was not meeting the standards set by GAGAS, the Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards promulgated by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Its report identified a number of specific areas in which the office’s audit policies and procedures must be strengthened. In addition, the results of her staff evaluation clearly demonstrated that higher performance standards need to be put in place.

In response, one hundred days after she was sworn in, Auditor Bump implemented sweeping reforms in the Office and a new guiding set of principles under which OSA employees will work to achieve excellence in auditing.

(April 7, 2011)

(April 7, 2011)