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  "title": "Online: VITARA - Audit Program",
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  "summary": "Online: VITARA - Audit Program Training Program Online: VITARA - Audit Program (VITARA-AUD) Session No.",
  "publishDate": "2026-08-06",
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      "heading": "Logistics and Delivery",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 26.252\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: September 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (33 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: French"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target Audience",
      "content": "- Executives and senior managers in tax administrations responsible for developing and managing the audit function.\n- Other tax administration staff involved in auditing taxpayers.\n- Tax officials who work in related areas such as compliance risk management."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications and Entry Requirements",
      "content": "- This module has no educational prerequisites.\n- Appropriate for tax administration staff with a foundational knowledge of tax administration practices.\n- Primary audience includes senior and executive officials working in the audit function.\n- Also supports staff who have no previous experience in auditing and wish to establish a robust audit program in their organization for the first time."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Description",
      "content": "- Aim: Build knowledge and understanding of how audit contributes to compliance, and key considerations in managing and executing an audit program.\n- Coverage:\n  - The legal framework for audit.\n  - Organization and governance of the audit function.\n  - The audit process.\n  - Staffing, training, systems, tools, and performance measurement in the audit domain."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Objectives (Upon completion, participants should be able to)",
      "content": "- Describe the role of audit in compliance.\n- Understand the relationship between compliance risk management, case selection and audit.\n- Delineate the legislative provisions, organization, tools and systems needed to support an audit program.\n- Identify audit-related performance measures at strategic, operational, and individual level."
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    "Session No.: OL 26.252",
    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Date: September 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (33 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: French",
    "Executives and senior managers in tax administrations responsible for developing and managing the audit function.",
    "Other tax administration staff involved in auditing taxpayers.",
    "Tax officials who work in related areas such as compliance risk management.",
    "This module has no educational prerequisites.",
    "Appropriate for tax administration staff with a foundational knowledge of tax administration practices.",
    "Primary audience includes senior and executive officials working in the audit function.",
    "Also supports staff who have no previous experience in auditing and wish to establish a robust audit program in their organization for the first time.",
    "Aim: Build knowledge and understanding of how audit contributes to compliance, and key considerations in managing and executing an audit program.",
    "Coverage:",
    "Describe the role of audit in compliance.",
    "Understand the relationship between compliance risk management, case selection and audit.",
    "Delineate the legislative provisions, organization, tools and systems needed to support an audit program.",
    "Identify audit-related performance measures at strategic, operational, and individual level."
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