Auditing Performance Information | The Performance Institute

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Course Description

Develop an audit program to assess the reliability of performance data
Assess the reliability of your organization’s performance measures
Audit the effectiveness of your organization’s external reporting of performance measurement information
Create a comprehensive maturity model for auditing your program

AuditingPerformanceInformation

Credits

CPE Credits: 12
Delivery Method: Group-live
Program Level: Basic
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None
Length: 2 Days
Tuition: $869

Course Availability

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P755 March 29–30, 2010 in Arlington, VA
P766 September 27–28, 2010 in Arlington, VA
P795 February 7–8, 2011 in Arlington, VA

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Course Agenda

Module 1

Design Performance Measures That Management Can Actually Use

Learn how to develop well written goals, objectives and measures
Evaluate data collection costs

Module 2

Create Reliable, Timely and Useful Performance Measurement Systems in Government

Learn techniques for measuring hard-to-measure outcomes
Develop a performance measurement system that accounts for goals, measures and key outputs

Module 3

Validity, Verification and Data Quality Standards

Understand how data refl ects programmatic outcomes
Improve data quality systems consistent with best practice performance auditing standards

Module 4

Establish Common Measures, Defi nitions and Reporting Standards

Audit and detect inconsistencies in performance information
Adhere to reliability and relevancy standards of information

Module 5

Examine the Quality of Data Sources and Evaluate Costs and Benefits of Individual Measurements

Define the measures used in management decisions
Examine the quality of data sources

Module 6

Create a Comprehensive Maturity Model for Auditing Performance Information

Set a quality threshold for performance information
Streamline the number of performance measures

Module 7

Performance Auditing as a Tool to Improve Government Accountability

Explore various standards used in conducting performance audits
Learn how to develop audit findings

Module 8

Forge Manager-Auditor and Stakeholder Relationships to Improve Performance Measurement Quality

Establish beneficial manager-auditor relationships
Learn to express the value of auditing to program managers

Module 9

Devise Performance Measures Consistent with Data Quality and Audit Standards

Address validity in the strategic design of your system
Incorporate data standards into the strategic architecture of your performance measurement system