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Olathe city auditor outlines risk-based audit program, asks council to rank priorities for 2026 audits
Summary
City Auditor Caitlin Clark presented a proposed shift to GAO government-auditing standards, a new quality-management framework and a risk-based audit planning process. Clark asked council members to complete a short survey ranking audit topics that will guide the 2026 audit plan and described peer-review and audit-resolution steps.
Olathe’s newly appointed city auditor, Caitlin Clark, told the council on Sept. 16 that she is shifting the city’s internal-audit work toward a risk-based approach tied to Government Accountability Office (GAO) Government Auditing Standards and a formal quality-management framework.
Clark said she is updating the audit charter and establishing an audit policy, an operations manual and base audit programs to align internal audit practices with GAO standards and to require periodic…
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