Audit Terminology
This is accountable to senior management and those charged with governance of the audited entity and that does not generally issue reports to third parties external to the audited entity.
Internal audit organization
RDMS
Results Driven Management System
Comprising the Program and Compliance, Pandemic and Fraud teams. Each team adds value to the department by providing audits, consulting services, investigations, analysis and recommendations resulting from audits.
CDHS Audit Division
This office builds relationships within the department and with communities across the state to serve Coloradans effectively. It also oversees several CDHS offices, Community and Family Engagement, and County Services.
Community Partnerships
Name of the new BHA commissioner starting on March 18th.
Dannette Smith
Includes independence of mind and appearance when conducting engagements, maintaining an attitude of impartiality, having intellectual honesty, and being free of conflicts of interest.
Objectivity
KEEP
Keeping Employees Engaged Program
Their performance, financial, and IT audits provide the General Assembly, agencies, and the public with thorough, credible, and impartial assessments of the operation of state programs and the use of state and federal funds.
Office of the State Auditor
It is responsible for the ongoing implementation and management of an array of Adult Financial Assistance Programs, the Colorado Works Programs, Employment and Workforce Development Services, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Employment and Training program (SNAP E&T), known in Colorado as Employment First (EF), and the Colorado Refugee Services Program (CRSP).
The Division of Economic and Workforce Support (DEWS)
The two potential alternative solutions to TeamMate.
Jira & Audit Board
These can be thought of as questions about the program that the auditors seek to answer based on evidence obtained and assessed against criteria.
Audit objectives
SLFRF
State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds
Established in 1941, this is an international professional association with global headquarters in Lake Mary, Florida, USA. It is the internal audit profession's leader in standards, certification, education, research, and technical guidance throughout the world.
Institute of Internal Auditors
By bringing together these two divisions, we’re not only looking to improve our efficiency and effectiveness, but also encourage better collaboration across CDHS. It aims to establish CDHS as the State’s most innovative, efficient, and cutting-edge department. In pursuit of this objective, it oversees the continuous implementation and management of the Department's Results Driven Management System.
Strategic Operations and Solutions (SOS)
The four items listed in the 2024 Audit plan.
Background Checks, Smartsheet, Software, BHA Support
The five elements of an audit finding.
Condition, Cause, Criteria, Effect, Recommendation
OCFMH
Office of Civil and Forensic Mental Health
Since its 1976 establishment, this has been at the forefront of the Nation's efforts to fight waste, fraud and abuse and to improving the efficiency of Medicare, Medicaid and more than 100 other Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) programs.
Office of Inspector General
Its mission states “We are the people that support, manage and maintain the “places and things” that make the Department of Human Services the best agency in Colorado.”
Division of Facilities Management
On July 15 (or the first business day following July 15) CDHS submits our budget request package to this Office.
Office of State Planning and Budgeting (OSPB)
Consists of auditors performing specific procedures on subject matter or an assertion and reporting findings without providing an opinion or a conclusion on it.
Agreed-upon procedures engagement
HFWA
Healthy Families Workplace Act
Operates as an umbrella organization for the external government audit community. It is a non-governmental organization with special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations.
The International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI)
Made up of people who have been involved with, or are currently engaging in, two CDHS services or programs. Members come together monthly to learn, give input and ultimately affect positive systems change.
The Family Voice Council
The Audit staff currently leading the 2024 Napkin Point Challenge with two points each.
Dawn, Ian, Jerica, Shelly