In 2021, the Accounts Committee for Control over the Execution of the Republican Budget (“Accounts Committee”)—the Republic of Kazakhstan’s Supreme Audit Institution (SAI)—celebrates its 25th anniversary. The Accounts Committee conducts comprehensive, independent assessments of the activities of government entities, with the aim of identifying shortcomings, managing risk, and making recommendations for more effective performance. Since its inception in 1996...
2020 marked SAI Bosnia and Herzegovina's 20th anniversary. Despite facing notable challenges at the very beginning of its work—including a disorganized public administration system and absence of criteria...
2020 was a special year for the State Audit Office (SAO) of Hungary, as the SAO celebrated two anniversaries—150 years since its foundation and 30 years of independent audit activities following its re-establishment in 1990. The SAO was founded by the Hungarian National Assembly in 1870, but SAO operations were...
The Accounts Chamber of the Republic of Tajikistan opened a new library on December 19, 2020, to commemorate its 9th Anniversary. The library currently contains 3,700 books in three languages on such topics as...
The Turkish Court of Accounts (TCA) celebrated its 158th anniversary on May 29, 2020. The TCA, established in 1862 during the Ottoman Empire as Turkey’s Supreme Audit Institution, actually bears a history spanning 1,180 years considering its existence as an audit body since the historical Turkish states...
On August 2, 2019, state control bodies of Belarus celebrated their 100th Anniversary. The Committee of State Control, the Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) of the Republic of Belarus...
In 2019, the Supreme Audit Office of Poland (NIK) celebrates the centenary of its establishment. As part of the celebratory events, the NIK hosted an international conference on “The Role and Challenges of the State Audit in the Modern World” where members from INTOSAI, EUROSAI and the ECA came together to share views on public auditing goals—current and future...
Jamaica’s Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) hosted the Caribbean Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (CAROSAI) 30th Anniversary Conference August 15-17, 2018. The three-day conference celebrated the theme "Building the Future on the Foundations of the Past” and included...
The Board of Audit of Japan (the Board), the nation's Supreme Audit Institution (SAI), recently published the “History of the Board of Audit from 1880 to 2010,” which describes the development of government auditing in Japan since the Board's establishment in 1880. The 130-year chronicle provides readers with...
On January 16, 2019, the National Audit Office of Lithuania (NAOL) celebrated the Centenary of its establishment, an anniversary marking a challenging, yet colorful, history. The NAOL continues to make every effort to be recognized as an independent Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) that is...