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Wednesday, May 19, 2021
The 2017 Oakland Parking Enforcement
Brenda Roberts is a long-time resident of Oakland and has more than 30 years of experience in accounting and finance. Brenda D. Roberts’ career includes the critical role of City Auditor for the City of Oakland. As City Auditor, she directed and managed performance audits of City operations and finances, including the audit of the City’s Parking Enforcement Department.
In 2017, Brenda Roberts’ team of auditors examined financial records related to the voiding or canceling parking citations. The auditors reviewed records for a nearly four-year period, to verify the voiding of these parking citations, or parking tickets was warranted and approved, since every parking citation represents fees to be paid to the City. Voided parking tickets is cancelled or foregone revenue to the City.
The audit found the City Parking Enforcement team issued $102 million in citations during the period, but $2 million of those were voided – most did not include valid reasons for the cancellations. In addition to this unapproved practice of voiding parking tickets, the audit highlighted several areas within the department that needed to be addressed. The consensus was that parking enforcement management had not provided the oversight required to manage the employees and the functions of the department. Management failed to establish acceptable error rates related to the number of voided parking tickets deemed to be reasonable, nor did they leverage available technology to the department’s advantage for reporting and monitoring of activities.
City Auditor Roberts recommended the Parking Enforcement Department eliminate certain unnecessary programs, to focus on the primary tasks of the group, to upgrade its technology, and to establish concrete policies and procedures regarding voiding of parking citations.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
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Internal Auditors Can Now Access Three New Internal Auditor Blogs
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Monday, January 25, 2021
Monday, January 4, 2021
IIA Asks G20 to Strengthen Its Corporate Governance Guidelines
A former adjunct professor at San Francisco State University, Brenda D. Roberts has spent over a decade in project management and auditing roles and is currently a project manager with RGP, a global consulting firm serving clients in all aspects of business needs. Brenda Roberts is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (The IIA), a non-profit professional association dedicated to the support of its membership of 200,000 auditors in all industries worldwide.
As a part of The IIA’s policy work, Richard Chambers, President and CEO of The IIA called on the Group of Twenty (G20) to strengthen its governance guidelines—the guidelines outlined in the treatise, “The Principles of Corporate Governance” (Principles). The Principles were co-created by the G20 within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an organization that provides a unique forum and knowledge hub for data and analysis, and advice on public policies and international standard-setting. First published in 1999, the Principles have since become the international benchmark for policy development, designed to help policy makers evaluate and improve the legal, regulatory, and institutional framework for corporate governance.
Mr. Chambers endorses the underlying context of the Principles, but also points to the value of Independent and objective internal auditing as a cornerstone for good corporate governance. Accordingly, he asks the G20 to consider the critical role of internal auditors as supportive of good corporate governance in the framework of the Principles.
For more information on the Principles, visit the OECD website at www.oecd.org
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