SIAAB Quality Assurance Review Program 

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The State Internal Audit Advisory Board (SIAAB) is responsible for coordinating external quality assurance reviews (peer reviews) among the State's internal audit organizations in accordance with the Fiscal Control and Internal Auditing Act (FCIAA).  State internal audit organizations designated to have an internal audit function are required to conduct an external quality assurance assessment (EQA) or a self-assessment with independent external validation (SAIV), at least once every five years by an independent reviewer or review team from outside the organization (IIA Attribute Standard 1312).  Each Internal Organization and Quality Review Team is required to follow SIAAB's external quality assurance guidelines as established in SIAAB Bylaws Article III - Quality Assurance Review Program and as presented below.

 

Requesting SIAAB's Approval of Quality Assurance Review Team

Chief Internal Auditors are required to obtain SIAAB's approval of the quality assurance methodology and review team members prior to beginning any external quality assurance reviews. To initiate the approval process, Chief Internal Auditors are required to submit the following documents to the SIAAB Chair:

In addition, each reviewer/external validator team member must successfully complete the SIAAB Online Quality Assurance Review Training Program.

 

SIAAB's External Quality Assurance Reviews

*Please use these forms for QAR requests approved February 12, 2017, or later.  For QAR requests approved prior to February 12, 2017, use of these forms is permissible, but not required.