## Online: VITARA - Audit Program

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Online: VITARA - Audit Program](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2026/vitara-audol26-252)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 26.252
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: September 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (33 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: French
- Status: Apply online by April 1, 2027

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### Logistics and Delivery
- 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

### Target Audience
- 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.

### Qualifications and Entry Requirements
- 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.

### Course Description
- Aim: Build knowledge and understanding of how audit contributes to compliance, and key considerations in managing and executing an audit program.
- Coverage:
  - The legal framework for audit.
  - Organization and governance of the audit function.
  - The audit process.
  - Staffing, training, systems, tools, and performance measurement in the audit domain.

### Course Objectives (Upon completion, participants should be able to)
- 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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## References

- [Online Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Apply Now](https://www-ins.imf.org/TAS/signon.aspx?pkey=OL26.252F)
- [Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2027/cbsat27-10)
- [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)
- [Fiscal Sustainability (FS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fsce26-38)
- [Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/sacat26-30)
- [Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/mrcce26-44)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2026/vitara-audol26-252_