Supreme Audit Institutions are operating in an increasingly digital environment. COVID-19 has sped up the adoption of digital technologies by several years and it is expected that these changes are here to stay. Keeping up-to-date with the digital transformation of the workforce is important for SAIs to continue to add value and remain relevant. Please read more about this in the recent blog published by PASAI, you will find the blog-link below.
The blog further refers to the recent INTOSAI Capacity Building Committee occasional paper on “The future-relevant and value-adding auditor” outlines competencies that auditors require to build digital literacy. The paper recommends that, to build digital literacy, SAIs must embrace new technologies to remain ‘future-relevant and value-adding’, even if these new technologies seem daunting.
Read more here: PASAI – Digital Literacy blog
Find the CBC occasional paper here: The future-relevant and value-adding auditor