The main topics of the latest meeting of the Heads of the Supreme Audit Institutions of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia were the following: cooperation between national Supreme Audit Institutions with the European Court of Auditors in the audit of issues related to EU matters, international accounting standards for the public sector, and the audit planning process. Other issues debated on included monitoring and analysis of fiscal processes and SAIs’ role in this regard, self-assessment of SAIs in the area of information technology application, a discussion within UN agencies on the strengthening of independence and institutional capacity building of SAIs in the process of the improvement of public accounting systems.
The mandate of the European Court of Auditors (ECA) and Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) of the European Union Member States – with regard to auditing of the management and utilisation of EU funds – overlap to some extent. The ECA and SAIs also partially share the stakeholders – the citizens of the European Union. As a result, cooperation of these bodies seems natural. In his article, the author presents the main areas of cooperation between the ECA and SAIs: participation of SAIs in the Court’s audit visits in the Member States, the activities aimed to mitigate the risk of duplicated audits, and cooperative audits.
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