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The Bulgarian National Assembly tasked the Bulgarian National Audit Office (BNAO) with performing an audit on banking supervision following much public attention on the difficult situation of one bank in particular…

The State Audit Institution (SAI) of the Republic of Serbia conducted a performance audit on the “Justification for Establishing Committees and Other Permanent and Temporary Working Bodies in the Public Sector” to address the issue of taxpayer money…

New Zealand’s Auditor-General, Lyn Provost, authored the report, “Reflections from Our Audits: Governance and Accountability,” which brings together findings and lessons from the office’s recent work. The report sparked important conversations across New Zealand’s public sector…

The Cour des comptes of the kingdom of Morocco welcomed the members of the Association of the Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) having in common the use of the French language (AISCUFF), May 30-June 3, 2016, in Rabat, Morocco…

Last year, the Romanian government approved the National Strategy on Public Procurement, which bears the primary objective of reforming the institutional framework of the Romanian public procurement system. This reformation will be achieved through the incorporation of European directives into national law…

The United Kingdom National Audit Office (NAO) has released “Governance and Supreme Audit Institutions: Reflections from the UK.” One of the challenges for Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) is to “practice what we preach,” and this publication shows…

The State Audit Bureau of Kuwait continues to participate and contribute to several INTOSAI working groups as part of its ongoing efforts…

On June 9, 2016, the Congress of the Republic of Peru appointed Edgar Alarcon Tejada, CPA, as the new Comptroller General…

With the Capacity Building Committee meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, wrapping up a few weeks ago, ideas brought to the forefront during the event inspired me to share how, together we can further advance capacity building, and in doing so, contribute to a more robust, more prominent, more professional International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions…

The Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic of Ecuador has created an auditing committee to evaluate the current “Ecuadorian Auditing Governmental Standards” and incorporate the main content of the International Standards of Supreme Audit Institutions (ISSAIs) into the updated norms…

Mr. Klaus-Heiner Lehne assumed his post as the 11th President of the European Court of Auditors October 1, 2016, for a renewable three-year term…

The INTOSAI Development Initiative’s activities include International Standards of Supreme Audit Institutions implementation, certification; and supporting INTOSAI regions and communities…

Dr. Margit Kraker assumed office as President of the Austrian Court of Audit (ACA) and…

At the 13th AFROSAI-E Governing Board meeting held in Abuja, Nigeria, May 2016, the Office…

The Professional Standards Committee (PSC) met in Copenhagen in May 2016. The event marked a…

The Journal is committed to this continued transformation, and you may have noticed a bit of a metamorphosis in the overall look and feel of this edition. The goals behind the redesign of the Journal include giving it a more contemporary, yet corporate, look and feel; providing a cleaner and more engaging reading experience; increasing readership accessibility; and adapting the Journal into a more robust tool for knowledge sharing…

The Court of Accounts of the Republic of Moldova (CoA) has successfully implemented the actions…

by Michael Kuur Sørensen, SAI of Denmark (Professional Standards Committee, Secretariat) The Professional Standards Committee…

As journalists, we do our best to ensure that everything is clear, concise and correct. But, there are times when we don’t always completely meet that challenge, particularly taking into account the global nature of our business. In the Spring 2016 issue of the INTOSAI Journal, we published quite a bit of news and some fascinating feature articles. In fact, we received numerous inquiries about some of the reporting in the last edition, specifically submissions from the State Audit Office of the Republic of Latvia…

A new financial audit system was introduced in Finland on January 1, 2016. On that date, the new Auditing Act and the Act on Audits of Public Administration and General Government Finances entered into force and harmonized the system of auditor’s examinations and the supervision of audits. There are about 1,600 approved auditors in Finland. Until the end of 2015…

The Chair of INTOSAI’s Finance and Administration (FAC) Task Force on the 2017-2022 Strategic Plan,…

In 2012, heads of the SAIs of China and USA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). According to the MoU’s objective, “The participants intend to establish, improve, and develop a framework for cooperation in national audit and promote effective interaction between the participants on the basis of equality, reciprocity, and mutual benefit.” The MoU has allowed the National Audit Office of the People’s Republic of China (CNAO) and the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) the opportunity to…