Feb 11, 2019 | BlogSpot, Ideal working environment, News
One session of the latest annual meeting of the INTOSAI Capacity Building Committee was dedicated to presenting examples of peer-to-peer co-operation. Together with Albanian colleagues, we, the Polish SAI, presented the development of the very good working relations...
Jan 15, 2019 | BlogSpot, Ideal working environment, News
One of the fundamental areas where Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) in the Pacific region require support is in the development of effective strategic plans, that the SAIs will then implement and report on. This need was met with the timely request from the INTOSAI...
Nov 13, 2018 | BlogSpot, Competent people, News
Through my Supreme Audit Institution (SAI), I graciously participated during 2017/18 as an expert (resource person) in the planning and quality revision stages of an international cooperative (performance and compliance) audit on illicit financial flows (IFFs) in...
Oct 2, 2018 | BlogSpot, Competent people, Good stories, News, Peer-to-peer
When I first started my work at the Supreme Audit Institution of Palestine, one challenge was how to start co-operating with international peers so that we could use our shared knowledge and experience to increase our productivity and the quality of our work. Today,...
Sep 11, 2018 | BlogSpot, Competent people, News
As SAIs we aim to influence the management of public funds to ensure they impact the lives of citizens. What does this mean for the profile of an audit professional? What should they know and what should they be able to do? I began my career working on private sector...
Aug 22, 2018 | Assessment and ongoing improvement, BlogSpot, News
According to history, Publius Vergilius Maro (also known as Virgil to the English-speaking world) spent substantial time in the years 37–29 BC on a long didactic hexameter poem called Georgics (from Greek, “On Working the Earth”). The themes of the...