The State Audit Office (SAO) has joined the work of the Task Force on Audit & Ethics of the European Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (EUROSAI).
The first online working meeting was attended by representatives of the State Audit Office of Georgia along with up to 50 delegates working on ethics from the SAIs over 30 countries globally.
Representatives from the SAIs of the UK, Portugal, the Netherlands, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Slovenia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the European Court of Auditors (ECA) addressed the attendees sharing their experiences.
The SAO has for the first time established a permanent Ethics Commission, which ensures the conduct of ethics policies in accordance with international auditing standards. Participation in the EUROSAI Task Force on Audit & Ethics assists the SAO to foster international practices for promoting ethical culture.
With this, the SAO is actively involved in the committees and working groups of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) and the European Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (EUROSAI) including:
• Professional Standards Committee (PSC) Subcommittees (Compliance Audit, Performance Audit Internal Control Standards);
• Knowledge Sharing Committee (KSC) Working Groups (Public Debt, Environmental Auditing, IT Audit, Program Evaluation, Big Data) within INTOSAI.
• Working Groups of IT, Environmental Auditing, the Audit of Funds Allocated to Disasters and Catastrophes; Task Force on Municipality Audit; and Task Force on Audit & Ethics within EUROSAI.
