Lynne Yorita is an Audit Manager with the University of California at Los Angeles, better known as UCLA. She has thirty years of internal audit experience performing operational, compliance, financial, systems, and fraud audits throughout the campus. Her knowledge extends from administrative and business processes and systems, through research, healthcare and auxiliary service operations to student affairs and institutional advancement. All of her experience has proven very valuable in her current position as the Manager of Advisory Services.

The present University and research environment presents many challenges in addressing and responding to new regulations and reporting requirements. Lynne is available for telephone consultation when "you don't know who to ask." She functions as a resource by lending guidance to faculty and staff, assisting with communication/connecting appropriate parties, and facilitating discussion for problem solving. As auditors, we consider management to have subject matter expertise; our knowledge is in internal control. Lynne's role is, in part, to help address the gaps. She participates on various workgroups and develops customized training for departments with an emphasis on accountability and internal control.

UCLA Audit and Advisory Services assumed the external audit coordination function for the campus in May 1995. Involved in agency reviews as the internal audit liaison since the late 1980's, Lynne has over 20 years of research administration experience and helped shape the current program. By acting as the external audit coordinators for the campus, Audit and Advisory Services offers ongoing assistance to individual and central departments on fiscal and administrative audits by external agencies (with the exception of the annual A-133 audit and programmatic reviews.)