By Philip Tengzu
Wa, (UW/R), May 3, GNA – The Internal Audit Agency (IAA) has organised a day’s training workshop for Internal Auditors and Audit Committee Members from the Upper West and Upper East Regions, to enhance their knowledge of global auditing standards.
The training centred on the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) on financial statement standards adopted by the Controller and Accountant General’s Department in consultation with the Auditor General and the national adoption of the Global Internal Audit Standards (GIAS).
The workshop was also to introduce them to the upcoming Minister of Finance’s Public Financial Management (PFM) Commitment Control Compliance Checklist, which is currently going through a review process.
Mr Nathan Yankey, a Technical Advisor at the IAA, who took the participants through the training, explained that the workshop was to enable the participants to apply those standards to their auditing activities to meet the required auditing standards and to achieve the quality of work that was expected.
He explained that the GIAS was aimed at evaluating and elevating the quality of internal audits…
