The Turkish Court of Accounts (TCA), which has a tradition dating back more than a thousand years, celebrated its 158th Anniversary this year with a heavy heart as the entire world lives under the shadow of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The pandemic created a “new normal” forcing Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) and governments alike to...
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Baltic State Supreme Audit Institutions Gain New Experiences Through Joint Audit
As cross-border cooperation projects evolve, Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) often extend beyond national boundaries in performing audit work and forge cooperative partnerships to meet specific audit needs. At the same time, joint opportunities provide platforms to enhance hands-on experience, cultivate collaboration, and enrich professional competencies in real-time and space. For the Baltic State SAIs...
Egypt’s Accountability State Authority Hosts Meetings, Participates in International Forums, Continues Long Tradition of Collaborative Efforts
Egypt's Accountability State Authority hosted several meetings, participated in international forums and continued the organization's long-standing tradition of collaborative efforts as 2019 came to a close. The ASA...
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...
News from Egypt
The Accountability State Authority of Egypt (ASA) contributed to several international and regional events in Spring 2019, including...
Myanmar, Norway Collaborate on Environmental Audit Workshop
The Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) of Myanmar and Norway jointly held an Environmental Audit workshop in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, in February. The workshop, designed to introduce environmental auditing in line with...
News from SAI Iran
The Supreme Audit Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran (SAC) submitted the Annual Audit Report for Fiscal Years 2017-2018 to Parliament. Dr. Adel Azar, SAC President, presented the report's summary during the Official General Session of the Parliament in January, where he briefed on...
SAI Kuwait Capitalizes on Cooperation, Collaboration
Experts from the U. S. Government Accountability Office Center for Audit Excellence delivered a training program to State Audit Bureau (SAB) of Kuwait staff on planning and conducting performance audits. The program, held in SAB headquarters March 10-21, 2019, was based on...
Building Partnerships to Combat Fraud, Corruption Via Effective SAI Technical Support
Preventing fraud and corruption are major challenges facing governments, particularly those of developing countries. Government inability to establish effective internal audit and financial control systems and adequately establish or resource organizations charged with identifying fraud and corruption are just some causes of fraudulent and corrupt behavior. While no system exists to entirely avert fraud and corruption...
UK NAO Hosts 14th JSF Supreme Audit Institution Conference
The United Kingdom (UK) National Audit Office hosted the 14th Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) conference in September 2018, where SAI delegates from each of the nine partner nations involved (Australia, Canada, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Turkey, UK and United States) met to exchange insights from audit work and share knowledge of the most expensive weapons procurement program in the world...