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Practice Guides


Practice Guide topics have been supported by our members and stakeholders to provide the most up-to-date methodology on important audit topics.

The Guides provide public sector auditors with current guidance that will help them to plan, carry out, and report on their audits. By combining theory and practical methodology, our Guides seek to inspire high-quality and high-impact audits at all levels of government.

They have been designed to meet the information needs of auditors at the various stages of their audit projects. Are you:

  • looking for information on a topic?
  • starting to plan an audit and wondering where to start?
  • planning an audit and searching for:
    • examples of questions that can be asked to obtain useful knowledge of business,
    • indicators of risk,
    • information on possible audit approaches,
    • examples of suitable audit objectives and criteria?
  • wondering if you can use benchmarks during the examination phase of the audit?
  • ready to draft your report, but could use some ideas on how to effectively convey your observations?

If yes, then these Practice Guides are for you!

Practice Guide to Sampling Methodology for Performance Audits

This Practice Guide covers the basic concepts, approaches, and methods that auditors should be familiar with to select and apply appropriate sampling methodology in performance audits.

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Practice Guide to Auditing Mining Revenues and Financial Assurances for Site Remediation

This Practice Guide to Auditing Mining Revenues and Financial Assurances for Site Remediation provides information and guidance that will help performance auditors to complete the successive steps involved in planning, conducting, and reporting the results of an audit of the mining sector.

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Practice Guide to Auditing the United Nations Sustainable  Development Goals: Gender Equality

This Practice Guide to Auditing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Gender Equality is our first methodology focused on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It will help auditors plan performance audits focusing on gender equality within the context of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

This guide was produced in collaboration with the International Institute for Sustainable Development and Women Deliver, and with funding from the Government of Canada as part of its support of our International Legislative Oversight Program.

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Practice Guide to Auditing Oil and Gas Revenues and Financial Assurances for Site Remediation

This Practice Guide to Auditing Oil and Gas Revenues and Financial Assurances for Site Remediation provides information and guidance that will help performance auditors to complete the successive steps involved in planning, conducting, and reporting the results of an audit of the oil and gas sector.

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Practice Guide to Auditing Gender Equality

This Practice Guide to Auditing Gender Equality aims to help public sector auditors conduct performance audits on gender equality policies and programs, and on gender equality issues within broader audit topics.

This Practice Guide was funded by Global Affairs Canada as part of its support to our International Legislative Oversight Program.

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Practice Guide to Auditing Oversight

This Practice Guide to Auditing Oversight will help auditors to deliver high-quality, high-impact audits of oversight. It will be especially useful to auditors who wish to audit:

  • oversight of agencies, boards, and authorities; and

  • oversight of major initiatives in departments and ministries.
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Practice Guide to Auditing Efficiency

This Practice Guide to Auditing Efficiency has the answers and guidance auditors need to plan, carry out, and report performance audits of efficiency. To further support auditors, this Guide is complemented by two Applied Guides:

These Applied Guides contain potential audit objectives, criteria, and procedures for auditing the efficiency of two common government functions.

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