Construction audit webinar series

Construction project leaders review the construction contracting process

A construction contract controls and construction audit webinar series

Construction projects are highly visible, complex undertakings requiring significant financial commitments. Whether you’re spending public or private funds for your construction project, the Construction Audit Toolbox webinar series can help ensure your initiative isn’t costing more than it should.

This webinar series provides auditors, facility administrators, CFOs, and other professionals involved in construction project management with an overview of the construction contracting process, construction project audit checklists and templates, best practices, industry insight, and the tools necessary to get you started.

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Why small capital projects should be in your audit plan
Small capital projects are perhaps the riskiest construction projects in your capital program. During this on-demand webinar, Baker Tilly presenters discuss why small capital project risk is elevated and how to efficiently audit the capital and maintenance project portfolio.
Monitoring construction in higher education
In this on-demand webinar, hear from Baker Tilly presenters as they share process knowledge, reporting and control strategies, and discuss ways in which proper construction project monitoring with your university's existing resources can ensure improved capital sustainability.
Construction audit: what we've learned since COVID-19
During this on-demand webinar, Baker Tilly presenters share what they have learned since the start of the pandemic, contracting and construction control strategies, increasing project cost transparency and minimizing construction cost escalation.
Maximize ROI with proficient project controls
The function of project controls is to provide proactive monitoring to ensure that capital projects are completed on time, on budget and within the contracted scope. During this on-demand construction audit webinar, our presenters show how this discipline touches every aspect of an organization and directly effects the outcome of projects and corporate initiatives alike.

Audit tools

Building construction audit templates
View our second webinar in the series to learn how to successfully template the most significant information for a construction audit.
Building construction audit checklists
In the first webinar of our "construction audit toolbox" series, we walk through how you can develop construction audit checklists and customization guidelines that meet the needs and risk mitigation goals of a construction project.

Mega projects

Improving construction project ROI
This webinar covers effective strategies to shorten the construction schedule, avoid unnecessary costs and identify potential overcharges.
Why do construction projects go wrong?
This webinar explored the root causes and early indicators of issues that can derail a project and lead to relationship failure between an owner and contractor.
Qualitative analysis: the construction site visit
Identifying and mitigating construction project risk is not limited to the quantitative analysis of project cost data.
Auditing mega projects: assessing project risk
Mega project conditions demand predictive risk mitigation programs to test project management effectiveness, safety program compliance, engineering specification compliance, and non-traditional construction methods from internal audit.

Claims and disputes

Construction claims: Part 3: Settlement
This webinar covers examples of claims and court decisions and what your role in the resolution process is.
Construction claims: Part 2: Accounting for financial impact
Listen to the second webinar in this construction claims series as we review what procedures are necessary to understand, quantify the potential financial impact and generate a claim.
Construction claims: Part 1: The fundamentals
Every construction project is unique and eventually most experience a construction claim. Listen in to learn more about fundamentals of the different types of construction claims and their root causes.
Avoiding construction claims and disputes
Normal conflicts occur during construction projects, but when these conflicts turn into unresolvable issues claims and disputes may result. Listen as we uncover ways to resolve and mitigate potential claims.
Understanding construction litigation strategy
Organizations with continuous capital programs are likely to encounter claims and litigation sooner or later. This presentation will use a case study to guide participants through the lifecycle of a dispute, providing insight to owners from both a plaintiff and defendant perspective.

Project costs

Pre-construction audits: what is the value proposition?
This on-demand construction audit webinar covers how an auditor can build a pre-construction auditing program.
Auditing direct labor in construction projects
This on-demand construction audit webinar covers how an auditor can test and analyze direct labor rates and costs to prevent unnecessary direct labor costs.
Mitigating construction project price risk in a volatile market
This on-demand webinar focuses on customizing a construction audit program to monitor and mitigate price risk volatility.
Detecting, testing, and reporting shifted costs
Cost shifting is the unauthorized transfer of costs from non-reimbursable cost centers to reimbursable cost centers. Reallocated costs are the authorized repurposing of budget dollars resulting from advantageous purchasing practices or efficient delivery of construction services.
Direct construction cost audit toolbox
Tools and resources for auditing direct construction costs. Case studies from real construction projects to apply the auditor’s toolbox and demonstrate the value of auditing direct construction costs.

Auditing contracts

Why small capital projects should be in your audit plan
Small capital projects are perhaps the riskiest construction projects in your capital program. During this on-demand webinar, Baker Tilly presenters discuss why small capital project risk is elevated and how to efficiently audit the capital and maintenance project portfolio.
Construction audit: what we've learned since COVID-19
During this on-demand webinar, Baker Tilly presenters share what they have learned since the start of the pandemic, contracting and construction control strategies, increasing project cost transparency and minimizing construction cost escalation.
Post occupancy construction audit: closeout and turnover
This on-demand construction audit webinar covers how an auditor can build a post occupancy construction monitoring program, recognize post occupancy construction risk and audit the punch list for completion and back charges.
Auditing change orders, contingency and allowances
This on-demand webinar focuses on the action items that an auditor can perform to identify the financial risk of change orders and quantify the impacts.
Auditing public-private partnership (P3) contracts
In this webinar, we review what risks are associated to using public-private partnerships as a funding mechanism in your next development project.
Auditing fixed price contracts
This webinar covers how auditing fixed price contracts earlier in the development phase can help owner's of real estate prevent unexpected costs and risk.
Performing construction contract risk analysis
Learn how an owner can mitigate risks with a well-written contract.
Construction contracting: tips, traps, and terms
Dan Brennan, founding partner of Laurie & Brennan, LLP, rejoins our series to break down the terms and conditions any good construction contract should contain. He provides an overview of terms that can be used which are explicit and protect the owner and contractor from misinterpretation and unintended consequences.
Analyzing contract terms: general requirements
All construction contracts have general conditions provisions. Analyzing these contract terms enables the construction contract auditor to build the project audit program and contribute to on time, under budget project delivery.
Auditing construction contract change orders
Learn how to decompose change orders to expose the underlying pricing strategies and the financial risk associated with each change order.
Auditing engineer-procure-construct (EPC) projects
Analyze an EPC contract for risk and plan to audit EPC projects.
Auditing unit priced construction contracts
Assess a unit priced construction contract for project risk and develop an audit program for unit priced projects.

Project controls

Maximize ROI with proficient project controls
The function of project controls is to provide proactive monitoring to ensure that capital projects are completed on time, on budget and within the contracted scope. During this on-demand construction audit webinar, our presenters show how this discipline touches every aspect of an organization and directly effects the outcome of projects and corporate initiatives alike.
Identifying unfavorable billing conditions
This on-demand webinar illustrates contract terms that expose an owner to increased overcharge risks, billing practices and behaviors that auditors should be aware of during the construction contract audit.
Construction fraud prevention
Avoid construction fraud and decrease risk by learning how to identify risk, fraud and financial impacts within the construction environment.
Best practices for project accounting controls
Learn how to keep jobs on time and on budget by analyzing and developing real time controls on complex accounting information such as progress billings, labor hour data and other project records.
Owner’s project controls review
Effective project controls are an organization’s best construction risk mitigation strategy. Through a series of case studies, we illustrate effective and ineffective project control scenarios and how to verify that the project controls environment is performing as expected.

Insurance programs

Auditing controlled insurance programs
Learn how controlled insurance programs work and how to audit them to verify program objectives.
Mitigating construction project risk with construction insurance products
Learn the many insurance options to help mitigate construction project risk. What is the right insurance product for a construction project? When should it be used? And more!

Construction audit basics

Construction audit program fundamentals
Establish construction audit fundamentals by learning how to identify high-risk capital projects, perform contract risk analyses and write construction audit programs.
Construction project audit basics: reporting results
This presentation reviews the process for building consensus around construction project audit findings, setting a positive tone in the report, and writing for the target audience.
Construction project audit basics: transaction testing
Learn more about testing transactions and verifying compliance once your audit plan is in place. We’ll help you understand which transactions need to be tested, what factors drive testing populations, and more.
Construction project audit basics: developing an audit program
Learn how to write a construction audit plan in today’s facility development environment and understand what has changed over the last five years.
Construction contract fundamentals
How internal audit can successfully participate in pre-construction planning activities to help mitigate financial, operational, and compliance risk. A review of the construction lifecycle and responsibilities.

Construction monitoring

Monitoring construction in higher education
In this on-demand webinar, hear from Baker Tilly presenters as they share process knowledge, reporting and control strategies, and discuss ways in which proper construction project monitoring with your university's existing resources can ensure improved capital sustainability.

Really appreciative that the content is something that can be applied to work and will add value to audits. Sometimes webcasts are too high level. For example, [the webinars include] actual examples of things that could be on audit plans.

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