In-House Training:  Effective Auditing of Construction Activity

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Our in-house training is conducted either in-person at your location or virtually at a time convenient for you.

Effective auditing of construction activity is one of the more significant challenges facing most organizations. This two-day seminar provides auditors with the ability to look beyond their traditional auditor role by providing them with insight on how to partner with their management team conduct effective audits of their organization’s construction activity.

This two-day seminar provides auditors with specific “how-to” construction audit techniques and other industry specific detailed information which will help them identify and develop potential cost avoidance and/or cost recovery opportunities.

Familiarized training:  all of our construction related in-house training includes preliminary familiarization with customer example project documents.  When we familiarize a course, we take time to review examples of your project documents including construction contracts, change orders, contractor invoices, etc.  This review helps us to better address the specific training needs of your organization and your project.

Course Summary

Introduction to Effective Auditing of Construction Activity

• Audit objectives related to controlling construction costs
• Project team roles and responsibilities
• Delivery systems – fast track, design build, conventional
• Contract procurement methods, types, and phases

Cost Plus and Time and Material Contracts – Typical Overcharges

• Design contract billings for time and reimbursables
• Billings for personal computer and/or mainframe computer time
• Construction contractor and/or construction manager billings for labor and labor burden
• Billings for contractor-owned equipment, third-party equipment rental, expendable tools, equipment and consumables, and material used during construction
• Transactions dealing with subcontractors

Auditing Construction Change Orders

• Typical overcharges in lump sum change orders
• Mechanical change order – discussion exercise
• Electrical change order – discussion exercise
• Change order labor and labor burden pricing

Auditing Lump Sum or Unit Price Contracts

• Quality and scope of work overcharges
• Substitution of materials or methods
• Not performing required services
• Not installing proper quantities
• Special types of lump sum contract overcharge situations
• Adjusting allowances
• Required bonds and insurance
• Improper charges for sales tax
• Special unit price overcharge situations
• Excessive quantities billed
• Improper measurement method used
• Inaccurate measurements
• Billings for excessive quantities actually performed

Who Should Attend

Owner organization representatives who are involved with controlling or auditing construction activity including:

• Owner’s construction management executives, project managers, administrators, etc.
• Owner’s construction audit representatives (internal audit and/or external consultants)
• Owner’s construction procurement representatives and/or legal representatives
  

Instructors

Rich Townsend is a Senior Construction Cost Control Consultant at R. L. Townsend & Associates, LLC. and President of Construction Audit & Cost Control Institute, Inc.

Since 1985 he has been affiliated with Courtenay Thompson & Associates as an instructor for public offering and in-house professional development seminars related to construction auditing and construction cost control.

Prior to starting his consulting firm, Rich spent 13 years with the auditing department of a major retail corporation. During his internal auditing career (1971-1984), he served in several staff and audit management positions with a specialization in audits of construction contract activity.

Mr. Townsend is a Certified Construction Auditor (CCA), a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and serves as a member of the advisory board for The National Association of Construction Auditors.

He is a graduate of Waynesburg College/Waynesburg University (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania) where he obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree with a major in accounting.

 

Ashley Humphries is a Senior Construction Auditor at R. L. Townsend & Associates, LLC. She has worked for the firm for the last nine years and she has extensive experience working on construction audits of major construction projects for private and public universities, university healthcare organizations, public school districts, industrial, and real estate development.

She has been part of our Construction Audit & Cost Control Institute instructor team for the last several years. She has also participated in presentations at the National Association of Construction Auditors annual conferences.

Ashley is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and a Certified Construction Auditor (CCA). She is a graduate of the University of North Texas (Denton, Texas).

 

Course Sponsor and Continuing Education Credits

All participants are eligible to receive up to 16 Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE’s) to fulfill professional accreditation requirements. Field of Study: Finance – Technical. Course Level: Basic. Group-live, lecture-style seminar; no prerequisites or advanced preparation required. For information regarding CPE, complaint, or program cancellation, please contact Marie Jones at (254) 736-0309 or Rich Townsend at (972) 679-6762 or email [email protected].

Construction Audit and Cost Control Institute, Inc. (CAACCI) is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA), as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org

 

CONTACT US

To learn more about bringing this seminar to your group:

• Fill out the form below or
• Call Rich Townsend at (972) 679-6762 OR
• Ashley Humphries (214) 551-4942