The four mass transit agencies of Northeastern Illinois (CTA, Metra, Pace and the RTA) perform several types of audits to verify financial statements, ensure full compliance with statutes and regulations, develop assessments of how management is conducting one or more aspects of the agency's operations, and provide recommendations for performance improvement. In some cases audits are performed on an annual or bi-annual basis; whereas other audits examine a single point of time and are performed at the specific request of management.
Copies of all RTA audit reports are made available to the RTA Board of Directors, agency management, the media and the public. In order to further ensure accountability and to support transparency, current and prior year audits, organized by categories, can be accessed on line.