Bahrain's National Audit Office submits its annual report, welcomes a new Auditor General and celebrates staff in representing FIPP, winning top contest honors...
Winter 2020
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Seeing the Big Picture: A Macroscopic View of S&T in US Government
Rapid developments in Science and Technology (S&T) are transforming multiple sectors of society, including medicine, transportation, and defense. These developments bring both opportunities—such as for economic growth and improved quality of life—and the potential for...
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SAI Myanmar Endeavors IPSAS Transition
Since the beginning of the new democratic government in 2016, Myanmar’s Office of the Auditor General of the Union (OAG) has planned to transform the government accounting system from...
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SAI France Crosses Symbolic, Significant Stakeholder Engagement Milestones
The French Cour des comptes, the nation's Supreme Audit Institution (SAI), has crossed a symbolic milestone. Last year, more than 2 million unique visitors visited...
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Lithuania NAO Hosts National Conference on Sustainable Development
The National Audit Office of Lithuania (NAOL) continues interacting with the public sector through its national SIGNALS conference on sustainable development. SIGNALS 2019, hosted by the NAOL in November 2019, invited participants to learn more about the most relevant public-sector signals, make necessary changes and answer the following questions...
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SAI Peru Hosts CAII 2019: Employing Technology to Combat Corruption
Information Technology (IT) is advancing at a breakneck pace, and Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) must incorporate IT into new anticorruption strategies as to not be outdated by the systematic infiltration of corruption...
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Collaboration, Exchange Between CNAO and GAO Contribute to Enhanced Audit Capacity
Committed to collaborative partnerships, the heads of the National Audit Office of the People's Republic of China (CNAO) and the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) signed a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in 2012 to facilitate cooperation and information exchange. Since then, both Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) have...
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Technology: Opportunities to Build Capacity, Enhance Oversight
Technology has changed how we do business, how we conduct public administration and human relations, and how we analyze information. Technological advances have also impacted the auditor´s role with huge implications in government oversight. Using new tools, such as...
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Conducting Remote Audits Using Integrated Information Analysis Systems
The Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation (Accounts Chamber), Russia's Supreme Audit Institution (SAI), recently began using an Information Analysis System (IAS) integrated with government entity databases to conduct remote audits. The SAI's experience underscores benefits to using such an approach and identifies...
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ARABOSAI General Assembly Highlights Development at All Levels
The State Audit Bureau (SAB) of Qatar hosted the Arab Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (ARABOSAI) 13th General Assembly in Doha, Qatar, November 10-14, 2019. The week-long event kicked off with the 58th Governing Board meeting, where delegates discussed...