Your government function is in auditing, briefly create answers about auditing functions as you apply the concepts of Strategic Planning, Benchmarking, Employee Assessment, and Performance Budgeting.

Assume you are the leader of a new government program that deals with the auditing. Your boss has complete confidence in your ability to briefly sketch out an overall design for this new program using your management and budgeting knowledge. Specifically, your boss wants the overall design to address four questions:

1. What questions can strategic planning answer that will help us to position this new program to succeed in its environment?

2. How could benchmarking help us to set performance and cost standards for this program?

3. How can we incorporate benchmarking standards into an individual’s employee assessment process?

4. How would we use the basic budget for this new program and expand it to be useful as a performance budget?