Internal Audits

This page includes information on the agency's internal audit process as well as copies of reports from internal audits performed by the agency. This information was provided by the agency in its Annual Restructuring Report, Program Evaluation, Request for Information, or Accountability Report. This list may not be exhaustive.


Internal Audit Process

The agency has internal auditors. The auditors are hired by, and report to, the Commission for the Blind's Commissioners. Shana Robinson ([email protected]) and Harvey Studstill ([email protected]) are the lead internal auditors.

The Commissioners decide when internal audits are conducted. Generally, internal audits are performed on financial and consumer services data. Internal auditors do not routinely conduct agency wide risk assessments, but they do routinely evaluate the agency's performance measurement and improvement systems.

In the last five fiscal years, auditors performed 480 internal audits. The shortest audit was completed in one month and the longest was completed in three months. The average number of months needed to conduct an audit is one and a half.

The agency notes those 480 internal audits of consumer services cases were conducted between FY 2010 and FY 2011. During that time, consumer services cases were audited for compliance with federal and agency established policy and procedures. Beginning in FY 2012, the internal case file audit process was changed to accommodate the agency's conversion to a new case management system (AWARE). Since the agency has implemented a new case management system, electronic consumer services data audits are now being conducted on a weekly basis to resolve data integrity issues. However, the consumer services data audits have not been singularly counted since 2012. Recent changes to federal reporting requirements have delayed a return to cyclical case reviews. Once the new reporting requirements have been fully implemented and the case management process stabilizes, targeted internal consumer services data audits will be resumed and counted accordingly.

Internal Audit Reports

If you know of other internal audits that are not listed below, please submit the information anonymously here.

The agency has not provided copies of any internal audit reports.