Mississippi Code Title 25. Public Officers and Employees; Public Records § 25-65-13

(a) Report directly to the university president or chancellor, community/junior college president or agency head or deputy university official, community/junior college official or agency head.

(b) Conduct financial, compliance, electronic data processing and operational and efficiency audits of university, community/junior college or agency programs, activities and functions and prepare audit reports of findings.

(c) Review and evaluate internal controls over university, community/junior college or agency programs, accounting systems, administrative systems, electronic data processing systems and all other major systems necessary to ensure accountability of the university, community/junior college or state agency.

(d) Develop long-term and annual audit plans to be based on the findings of periodic documented risk assessments. The plan shall show the individual audits to be conducted during each year and the related resources to be devoted to each of the respective audits. The audit plan shall ensure that internal controls are reviewed on a periodic basis. The plan shall be submitted to the university, community/junior college or agency head for approval and the audit committee for comment. A copy of the approved plan shall be available upon request to the State Auditor or other appropriate external auditor to assist in planning and coordination of any external financial, compliance, electronic data processing or performance audit.

(e) The scope and assignment of the audits shall be determined by the university, community/junior college or internal audit director; however, the university president or chancellor, community/junior college president or head of the agency may at any time direct the internal audit director to perform an audit of a special program, activity, function or organizational unit.