Status of the Auditor General's Risk and Opportunity Assessment of the City and its Major Agencies and Corporations

The purpose of the Auditor General's city-wide risk and opportunity assessment is to inform the development of her risk-based Audit Work Plan. It helps to ensure that all significant areas of the City are evaluated from an audit risk perspective by using uniform criteria to identify areas that may warrant audit attention. Determining which areas to audit and the appropriate allocation of audit resources is essential in maximizing the value of an effective audit process. The Auditor General's 2020 city-wide risk and opportunity assessment is still underway and the purpose of this report is to inform the Audit Committee of progress to date. In 2020, the Auditor General's city-wide risk and opportunity assessment also includes the Toronto Public Library and Toronto Police Service. Both of these Boards have requested the Auditor General to perform this assessment. The proposed risk-based audit plans will be reported to their separate Boards in October/November 2020, before they are presented to the City Audit Committee. We would like to include any emerging higher risk audit areas in the Auditor General's 2021 Audit Work Plan which will be presented to Audit Committee in November 2020. The potential audit projects that can be completed will be subject to available resourcing. We plan to report our preliminary results as part of the Auditor General's 2021 Audit Work Plan with additional updates next year.