Internal Audit serves as a proactive partner with Augusta University management.
Our goal is to enhance internal controls and compliance while supporting the University’s core values of Collegiality, Compassion, Excellence, Inclusivity, Integrity and Leadership. Internal Audit works to identify and mitigate risks which may impair the University’s ability to achieve its core values. The Office Internal Audit (OIA) provides independent and objective assurance and consulting services to the University.
Office of Internal Audit
1120 15th Street, HS-3135
Augusta, Georgia 30912-7900
706-721-2661
The mission of Internal Audit is to provide an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve the organization's operations. Internal Audit aims to help the organization accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes.
Employ state of the art technological tools and techniques.
Deliver unquestionable customer/stakeholder value and satisfaction.
Initiate activities which result in demonstrable and quantifiable cost savings and/or evident improvements in effectiveness and efficiency.
Create and promote an enterprise-wide control infrastructure and consciousness which ensures integrity and ethics in the enterprise’s operating environment.
Internal auditors shall:
Perform their work with honesty, diligence, and responsibility.
Observe the law and make disclosures expected by the law and the profession.
Not knowingly be a party to any illegal activity, or engage in acts that are discreditable to the profession of internal auditing or to the organization.
Respect and contribute to the legitimate and ethical objectives of the organization.
Internal auditors shall:
Not participate in any activity or relationship that may impair or be presumed to impair their unbiased assessment. This participation includes those activities or relationships that may be in conflict with the interests of the organization.
Not accept anything that may impair or be presumed to impair their professional judgment.
Disclose all material facts known to them that, if not disclosed, may distort the reporting of activities under review.
Internal auditors shall:
Not participate in any activity or relationship that may impair or be presumed to impair their unbiased assessment. This participation includes those activities or relationships that may be in conflict with the interests of the organization.
Not accept anything that may impair or be presumed to impair their professional judgment.
Disclose all material facts known to them that, if not disclosed, may distort the reporting of activities under review.
Internal auditors shall:
Engage only in those services for which they have the necessary knowledge, skills, and experience.
Perform internal auditing services in accordance with the Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing.
Continually improve their proficiency and the effectiveness and quality of their services.
The Office of Internal Audit's purpose is to support the mission and vision of Augusta University. Our office schedules audits, advisory services, and departmental reviews in several ways. Most audits and departmental reviews are chosen based on an annual risk assessment that considers such factors as management-identified risks, audit sensitivity, internal control structure, last audit performed, public disclosure implications, etc. The University System of Georgia and institutional management may request specific audits and reviews. The audits may include: