LAHORE: The Auditor General of Pakistan Muhammad Ajmal Gondal on Sunday inaugurated three-week International Intensive Training Program in Performance Auditing (107-ITP)
As many as 47 Auditors from 14 Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) of Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, Iran, Kyrgyz Republic, Liberia, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand and Turkey are participating in this training.
Auditor General of Pakistan welcomed the participants and said that ITP in Performance Auditing was pioneered in 1981 and its continuation till date not only validates the ever increasing importance of performance audit, but also the dedication and hard work of the management of PAW to materialize it.
Ajmal Gondal said, “I take pride in international recognition of the PAW for its commitment and professional approach in imparting training. However, the Performance Audit over the years has attained more importance and become a large scale and a distinct practice”.
He said Performance Auditing gives the auditor an opportunity to go beyond traditional compliance issues and enable him to examine performance of the executive in a wider context. It is a modern, challenging and fascinating form of audit that requires specialized skills and standards, he added.
While addressing the participants of 14 countries via Zoom, Director General Performance Audit Wing Sami Ullah Teepu reiterated the vision of Auditor General of Pakistan and said that legislature and other stake holders demand multidimensional view of things to ensure transparency and accountability in public sector.
He said, “Today audit managers have to look beyond compliance issues and learn new techniques and tools in order to fulfil the demand of changing times. The purpose of the program is to enhance the analytical skills of audit managers of the SAIs to equip the participants with analytical tools & techniques and to enhance their professional knowledge &capabilities in the regime of performance auditing.”
The Director General Performance Audit Wing apprised the foreign participants that SAI Pakistan has been organizing this intensive training Programme since four decades for sister SAIs. He told the participants that we are working in challenging environment and our job demands utmost proficiency and dedication.
The commitment and appropriate knowledge and skill can lead auditor and audit both in the right direction, to serve the common cause of acquiring and utilizing the state resources efficiently and effectively. This will go a long way in improving the governance & better service delivery as expected by the stakeholders, he concluded.
