Internal Audit
Report misuse of public funds, property, or employee time through the Utah County Tip Hotline. Access audit reports by year for transparency.
Cumulative Year Stats
Updated: 03 November, 2025Dollars Audited
Average Response Time
Internal Audit Plan Completion
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Report a Tip
What is investigated?
- Misuse or misreporting of public funds, property, or employee time
- Accuracy, completeness, and compliance with any internal control (including law, rule, regulation, policy, or professional standard) applicable to Utah County that affects the fair presentation of the County's financial status.
What is NOT investigated?
- Employee personnel grievances (e.g., equitable compensation, harassment, etc.)
- Provide the information to office management or Human Resources
- Consumer, taxpayer, Medicaid, or welfare fraud
- Provide this information to the relevant State of Utah agency.
- GRAMA/OPMA non-compliance
- Provide this information to the Office of the Utah County Attorney
- Activity outside Utah County Government
Information to prepare before submitting your tip:
- Who is involved?
- What specific statute/policy do you believe was violated?
- When did the event(s) take place?
- Where did the event(s) occur?
- How do you know about the event(s)?
- What evidence exists to support your compliant?
- Save relevant files to upload with your tip.
- Are there other individuals to which you have reported this complaint?
- Litigation information, if any.
- A complainant identity is a protected record, per the Utah Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA) and will be kept confidential.
- Complaints may be submitted anonymously.
- Providing contact information enables Internal Audit to adequately investigate the complaint.
- Anonymous complaints do not invoke the whistleblower protection, per Utah Code 67-21-3.
Confidentiality and Anonymity
- A complainant identity is a protected record, per the Utah Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA) and will be kept confidential.
- Complaints may be submitted anonymously.
- Providing contact information enables Internal Audit to adequately investigate the complaint.
- Anonymous complaints do not invoke the whistleblower protection, per Utah Code 67-21-3.
When a government agency requests an individual to provide personal data, the Utah Government Data Privacy Act requires a government agency to provide notice to the individual as to the reason for requesting the personal data, how the personal data will be used, and the consequences for not providing the personal data.
Your personal data will be protected and remain confidential, with access restricted to the Utah County Auditor's Office Internal Audit Division, Utah County Auditor, and third-party data processor, Jotform, Inc. The Utah County Auditor's Office requests that you complete the following form so that staff may investigate the applicability and accuracy of your Tip Hotline submission. Staff will only use your personal data to investigate your Tip Hotline submission. Providing your personal data is voluntary but failure to do so may result in a Tip Hotline submission investigation that is reduced in scope or not initiated. This data is collected and maintained in accordance with the Utah Division of Archives and Records Service GRS-1728 record series and as required in Utah Code 63G-2-307.
Utah Government Data Privacy Act Privacy Notice
When a government agency requests an individual to provide personal data, the Utah Government Data Privacy Act requires a government agency to provide notice to the individual as to the reason for requesting the personal data, how the personal data will be used, and the consequences for not providing the personal data.
Your personal data will be protected and remain confidential, with access restricted to the Utah County Auditor's Office Internal Audit Division, Utah County Auditor, and third-party data processor, Jotform, Inc. The Utah County Auditor's Office requests that you complete the following form so that staff may investigate the applicability and accuracy of your Tip Hotline submission. Staff will only use your personal data to investigate your Tip Hotline submission. Providing your personal data is voluntary but failure to do so may result in a Tip Hotline submission investigation that is reduced in scope or not initiated. This data is collected and maintained in accordance with the Utah Division of Archives and Records Service GRS-1728 record series and as required in Utah Code 63G-2-307.
Audit Reports
Engagement reports included on the annual internal audit plan are published as they are completed. Some reports may include recommendations to management to improve an area's governance, risk management, and/or control processes.
2025 AUDIT PLAN2025
Audit Authority
- Per Utah Code 17-19a-401(1)(a)(i): A county auditor may conduct an investigation of an issue or action associated with or related to the auditor's statutory duties, including investigating a book or account of a county office, officer, department, division, court or entity.
- Per Utah Code 17-19a-102(1): "Account" or "accounting" means: (a) the systematic recording, classification, or summarizing of a financial transaction or event; and (b) the interpretation or presentation of the result of an action described in Subsection (1)(a).
- Per Utah Code 17-19a-204(1)(a): (a) Except as provided in Subsection (1)(b) and subject to Subsection (2), a county auditor is authorized to audit the financial records and accounts of a: (i) county office; (ii) county department; (iii) county division; (iv) county justice court; or (v) any other county entity.
- Per Utah Code 17-19a-102(4): "Book" means a financial record of the county, regardless of a record's format.
- Per Utah Code 17-19-102(3): "Audit" or "auditing" means an examination that is a formal analysis of a county account or county financial record: (a) to verify accuracy, completeness, or compliance with an internal control; (b) to give a fair presentation of a county's financial status; and (c) that conforms to the uniform classification of accounts established by the state auditor.