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El Paso auditors outline method for selecting 2025–26 audit projects, cite staffing and hours limits
Summary
Internal audit staff detailed the process used to rank risks and convert available staff hours into audit “slots” for the City of El Paso’s 2025–26 annual audit plan, and fielded questions from Financial Oversight and Audit Committee members about administrative time, contingency hours and hotel tax audit capacity.
The Financial Oversight and Audit Committee heard a presentation on the process the internal audit office uses to prepare the City of El Paso’s 2025–26 annual audit plan, including how staff rank risks, calculate available audit hours and schedule audits.
The audit office described a multi-step process: gather stakeholder input, create a “long list” of candidate audits, score each item across nine risk areas (up to five points each), apply discretionary weight points and then convert the top-ranked items into audit engagements based on available auditor hours.
Miguel, an internal audit presenter, told committee members the office begins with a stakeholder interview phase that included FOAC members, the city manager, deputy city managers, the city attorney, the…
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