Career and First-Term Highlights:

• Identified numerous poor contracting practices, revealing hundreds of millions of dollars of waste over the last decade. 
• Provided General Assembly and Governor with quality audits and irrefutable findings, which enable them to better do their jobs. 
• Improved accountability of audits performed by staff. 
• Appeared before General Assembly with audit results for cases needing legislative action. 
• Set training as a priority for State Auditor staff. 
• Performed follow-ups on previously performed audits to make sure agency remedies were in place and working. 
• Identified numerous poor contracting practices. 
• Discovered that since 1997, the State of North Carolina had been paying, for inmate medical care that should be covered by Medicaid or Medicare, five times more than those agencies would pay. The audit saved the State millions of dollars. 
• Revealed that the state is spending 6-10 million dollars a year conducting evaluations that are not adequately performed. 
• Leader in redesigning the Auditor’s Office training program to make training more relevant to state and auditors’ work. 
• Instrumental in bringing the state’s compliance supplements up to federal standards, ensuring that federal grants are being used as intended.  
• Provided training to CPA’s in NC as well as across the nation.  
• Helped develop employee evaluations that better reflected the job performance of Auditor’s Office employees.  

Beth provides training to CPA's
in NC as well as across the Nation
• Taught CPAs across the nation how to audit governmental organizations including the concept of risk-based auditing. 
• Worked for the American Institute of CPAs as a case investigator of audits alleged to be substandard.