Federal Audit in Relation to Continuous Audit. Auditoria Federal em Relação a Auditoria Contínua.

1. Federal Audit in Relation to Continuous Audit
Hussein Issa
(34th WCARS-Sao Paolo)

2. Current state – Where can you get Gov. FR?
• Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA):
– CAFRs for municipalities who issue bonds  Problems?
• https://www.opengov.com/
• http://www.openbooknewyork.com/
• http://www.usaspending.gov/
• http://ohiotreasurer.gov/transparency/Ohios-Online-Checkbook
• Standardized Business Reporting: the Oregon CAFR Project
– Statement of net assets and Statement of activities for the years 2006 and
2007 for the state of Oregon (AGA 2008).
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3. Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR)
NJ CAFR, 2013
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Seriously?!!
You did not really expect to see a whole CAFR
statement on one slide!!!!! Ha Ha Ha!

4. Users
• Citizens
• Analysts
• Investors
• Creditors
• Legislative and oversight bodies
In addition to other stakeholders: preparers, policy makers, etc.
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5. Reasoning Capability, Metadata, Context & Knowledge Representation
Time,
Effort,
Money
Taxonomy
PDF
Raw Text
Word
CSV/Excel
Relational DB
XML
XBRL
(Human readable)
(Machine readable)
Types of Data
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6. With XBRL?Mechanics More Time for Analysis => Better Analysis => Less Risk
Value-added Analysis and Decision-making? 10%
Average Time for Updating Financial Information—11 days
90% time spent on Mechanics
Average Time for Updating Financial Information—1 day
Without XBRL …
With XBRL …
For example … help banks report

7. Government
pdf’sGovernment
pdf’s
Government
& Non-profit
PDF, Excel
Files, Etc.
Government & Non-profit
Data Repository
Phase 1:
Current
State
Citizen
Centric
Reports
MSRB
Reporting
CAFRs
or AFRs
Rating
Agency
Reports
State
Reporting
Ad Hoc
Reports
U.S.
Census
of Govt.
Lenders,
Etc.
Phase 2:
What can
be done
Phase 3:
What should
be done
Complex &
Redundant
Reporting
Processes
Stream-
lined &
Structured
Reporting
Processes
Continuous
Auditing &
Reporting
Processes
Creation of
Government &
Non-profit
Taxonomies
Standardized Government &
Non-profit Taxonomies
Cloud
distribution
layer
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Reports for
legislatorsReports for
Bond
analystsReports for
CitizensReports for
Policy
makers
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