Internal Audit
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UK Internal Audit (UKIA) surveys our audit clients to help us identify opportunities to enhance our professionalism and knowledge, improve our processes and communication and gain insight into the overall value the audit provided the unit. In FY 2025-26, our overall score was 3.9/5, .2 higher than last year.
Our audit duration — the actual hours expended compared to the hours budgeted for each project — came in 26 percent under budget. We attribute this achievement to our monthly metrics review meetings implemented two years ago to help us identify and correct potential bottlenecks early as well as the development of Excel macros to assist with testing for our non-exempt overtime compensation reviews.
UKIA defines stakeholder outreach as the time invested in communicating audit results, trends and other insights to our clients, process owners, program partners and other relevant stakeholders as well as University leaders. Our Chief Accountability Officer and Audit Executive held 36 meetings focused on stakeholder outreach in FY 2025-26, while our audit teams invested 574 hours on this critical relationship-building activity.
UKIA completed 23 follow-up reviews covering topics such as asset verification, procurement cards practices and web application security. The University achieved an average remediation score of 89.2 percent, equal to its average score from last year despite a 360 percent increase in completed follow-up reviews.
UKIA’s audit managers and audit staff logged 19,792 hours of “productive time” — the time dedicated to performing direct audit work and stakeholder outreach — comprising 72 percent of their total work hours. The balance of their other hours, referred to as “infrastructure time,” was focused on non-audit activities that are critical to our operations, such as general administration, business enablement and professional development.
This time was devoted to completing 34 audits, 13 investigations, nine unsubstantiated inquiries and four consultations, in addition to our Accountability Office’s numerous ongoing projects. It also includes hours spent developing five new data analytics and reviewing associated exceptions.
