Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to reviewing agency use of long-term contract and temporary workers and determining the agencies' reasons for using a contract workforce, decision-making processes used when hiring contract versus state workers, and levels of management exercised with contract workforce; to determining how to improve collection and reporting of contract workforce information to the Legislature; and to providing agencies with information on what considerations they should take into account when creating a contract workforce.
Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether institutions' procurement processes ensure that the best contractors are selected fairly and objectively; whether the methods institutions use to establish contract payments ensure that the State pays a fair and reasonable price for the goods and services; whether institutions' contract provisions and regulations hold contractors accountable for delivery of quality services and prevent the inappropriate or inefficient use of public funds; and whether institutions establish contractor oversight to ensure that contractors consistently provide quality goods and services and that public funds are spent efficiently and effectively.
Досліджено порядок формування договірних взаємовідносин при виконанні завдань з аудиту на основі аналізу особливостей аудиту як професійної інтелектуальної послуги та змісту тристоронніх відносин між аудитором, відповідальною стороною та визначеними користувачами. Виділені такі специфічні риси аудиторської роботи, як відсутність об'єктивних підстав для зменшення замовником плати залежно від фактично одержаних результатів, обмеженість використання результатів роботи самим аудитором, складність оцінки якості аудиторської перевірки та її кваліфікації як такої, що проведена неналежним чином, порядок прийняття замовником результатів аудиту. Доведено, що зміст тристоронніх відносин, різноманітність зв'язків між відповідальною стороною та користувачами, наявність широкого кола останніх при проведенні обов'язкового аудиту та складність їх ідентифікації, специфіка організації обов'язкового аудиту та аудиту, замовником якого виступає особа, яка не входить до структури підприємства, що підлягає аудиту, обумовлює можливість та необхідність укладання як дво-, так і багатосторонніх договорів на виконання завдань з аудиту, що дозволить забезпечити врахування інтересів та потреб всіх користувачів аудиторської інформації. Визначені істотні умови договорів на виконання завдань з аудиту. Обґрунтовано необхідність виокремлення договорів на виконання завдань з аудиту в особливу групу договорів з точки зору цивільного законодавства, внесення відповідних змін до Цивільного кодексу України і включення до його змісту окремої глави, присвяченої виконанню завдань з аудиту, а також деталізації цих питань в законодавстві України з питань аудиторської діяльності. The procedures of forming of contractual relationships when performing audit engagements on the basis of analysis of the characteristics of audit as a professional and intellectual services and content of tripartite relationship between the auditor, responsible party and defined users have been investigated. Such specific features of the audit work as the absence of objective grounds for the reduction of client payment depending on the actual results obtained, the limited use of the results of the work by the auditor, the difficulty of assessing the quality of the audit and its qualification as one that performed of poor quality, the procedures of accepted results of the audit by the client have been substantiated. It has been proved that the content of tripartite relations, diversity of relations between the responsible party and the users, the presence of a wide range of the users of the statutory audit and the difficulty of their identification, the specificity of the organization of statutory audit and the audit, customer of which is a person who is not part of structure of the company to be audited, stipulate possibility and necessity of concluding bilateral and multilateral agreements on performance the audit engagements that will ensure consideration of the interests and needs of all users of audit information. The essential terms of contracts on performing the audit engagements have been identified. The necessity of distinguishing contracts on performing the audit engagements in a special group of contracts in terms of civil law, proper amendments to the Civil Code of Ukraine and the inclusion to its content separate chapter on performance the audit engagements, detailing of these issues in legislation of Ukraine on auditing have been substantiated.
Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the assessment controls over contract management and procedures on payments for purchasing contracts at the Texas Education Agency (Agency).
Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the Texas Facilities Commission's (Commission) ability to monitor contracts to help ensure that the contractors perform according to the contract terms, and to plan the property management services contract or form the construction manager-at-risk (CMR) contract in accordance with the State of Texas Contract Management Guide, the State of Texas Procurement Manual, and Commission policies and procedures.
Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the Department of Transportation's (Department) ability to plan, procure, form, and monitor contracts and authorizations related to the design and reconstruction of an interchange on State Highway 352 in the Department's Dallas District according to applicable statutes and rules and its policies and procedures.
Warns that the psychological contract, an implicit agreement between the individual and organization, is at risk when the organization undergoes change. Reports a survey, the results of which indicate that, while companies recognize the importance of people in determining the success of change programmes, more than half the organizations surveyed do not assess people's ability to adapt to change. Furthermore, reveals that the organizations which do measure capacity for change appear to be using inappropriate instruments. Describes how the concept of "resilience" can be used to facilitate the identification of the cultural factors within organizations which have a protective effect against the negative impact of organizational change, and outlines the development of an instrument to measure organizational resilience, the "resilience audit".
Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the development and implementation of the CSCOPE curriculum management system was conducted in compliance with applicable procurement and contracting laws; determining the amounts of revenues or fees assessed or collected, expenditures, and support or in-kind contributions that education service centers or independent school districts made or authorized for the development, installation, distribution, and marketing of CSCOPE and whether those amounts were administered in compliance with applicable laws and rules; and determining the amounts of expenditures, revenues, or in-kind contributions that education service centers made to the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative (Collaborative) and whether those amounts were administered in compliance with laws and rules.
Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the Department of Public Safety (Department) sufficiently performing several planning, procurement, formation, and oversight activities for two contracts audited, as well as opportunities for improvement in those areas for similar contracts in the future.
Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether contract management processes and controls over routine maintenance contracts reasonably assure that the Department of Transportation plans and identifies the contracting objectives and contracting strategy; selects the most qualified contractors fairly and objectively; ensures that contract provisions hold the contractor accountable for producing desired results; establishes prices that are cost-effective and aligned with the cost of providing the goods and services; and monitors and enforces the terms of the contract.
Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the Department of Criminal Justice procured selected contracts for goods and services in accordance with various statutes, rules, and guidelines to help ensure that the State's interests were protected, and whether the Department managed and monitored selected contracts for goods and services to help ensure that contractors performed according to the terms of the contracts and that contractor billings were valid and supported.
