Join Us at the 2026 IG Institute in Jacksonville

The Association has identified six broad areas of core competency for inspectors general and their senior staff. The Association’s five-day curriculum covers the following six core competency areas:

• Context of the inspector general function
• Ethics
• Legal issues
• Office management issues
• Investigating fraud, waste, and abuse
• Audits, inspections, and reviews

The Association has identified seven essential areas for inspectors general investigators.

• The investigative process
• Professional standards for conducting investigations
• Ethics in investigations
• Legal issues
• Procurement fraud and computer crime
• Investigative techniques
• Working with auditors

The Association has identified nine essential areas for inspector general auditors.

• The audit process
• Professional standards for conducting audits
• Ethics
• Internal control
• Data Analytics and IT auditing
• Peer review process
• Identifying and Reporting Audit Accomplishments
• Fraud Risk Management
• Statistical Sampling

The Association has identified seven broad areas of core competency for inspectors general inspectors/evaluators. The Institute program’s five-day curriculum covers the following seven core competency areas:

• Professional standards for conducting inspections/evaluations
• Inspection/evaluation process
• Types of inspections/evaluations
• Evidence collections, analysis, and documentation
• Ethics and IG inspections/evaluations
• Working with investigators and auditors
• Peer review process

The Association has identified seven broad areas of core competency for inspectors general counsel. The Institute program’s five-day curriculum covers the following seven core competency areas:

• Counsel’s role in representing inspector general offices
• Mitigating legal risks
• Counsel’s role in investigations and reporting
• Whistleblower confidentiality and protection
• Government procurement and procurement fraud
• Contract management and contract fraud
• Professional ethics