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4 Feb 21
A five-year programme aimed at building the capacity of Madagascar’s Court of Accounts has been unveiled in Antananarivo.
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4 Dec 20
Claire Schouten and Vivek Ramkumar from the International Budget Partnership give examples of how cooperation between spending watchdogs and civil society have brought benefits for people.
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30 Nov 20
Central banks have promised the end of any further changes to the Basel III framework, introduced to manage risks following the global financial crisis of 2007-09.
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12 Nov 20
Supreme audit institutions face huge pressure to ensure government spending advances the public interest and aids progress of countries’ development, and need help to make their oversight full and...
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10 Nov 20
EU spending was impacted by too many errors, particularly in high-risk areas, the European Court of Auditors’ annual report for the 2019 financial year found.
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13 Oct 20
Auditors have urged France to cut spending on health insurance payments after projecting the social security system deficit will balloon by more than 20 times its size this year.
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4 Sep 20
Just one-quarter of recommendations made by the EU to member states were fully or substantially implemented in seven years, leading to slow progress in areas such as poverty alleviation, auditors...
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4 Sep 20
South Africa’s auditor-general found a “high risk” of fraud and abuse in the country’s multi-billion rand Covid-19 stimulus package, with money having been improperly paid out and serious fears of...
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28 Jul 20
Problems with the publicly owned company managing the Eiffel Tower have led auditors to suggest the City of Paris could bring the monument back under direct control.
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9 Jul 20
Governments and organisations, including multilateral development banks, are funding tens of billions of dollars in development projects and programs to help countries respond to Covid-19. The...
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3 Jul 20
The EU risks overstating its climate spending without a reliable tracking method, the EU’s fiscal watchdog has warned.
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30 Jun 20
France should undertake an “in-depth review” of its public spending policies in order to rebuild its economy and stop government debt spiralling, the country’s state auditor has said.
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12 Jun 20
A wave of fraudulent unemployment-benefit claims has led the state audit office in Washington to launch a review into the US state government’s Employment Security Department.
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22 May 20
The US spending watchdog has told the government it could save tens of billions of dollars by reducing overlap and duplication in its programmes.
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28 Apr 20
Emmanuel Macron’s “expensive” response to the ‘yellow vest’ movement is partly to blame for France’s public deficit rising in 2019, the country’s court of auditors has found.
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21 Apr 20
By thinking about how to plan an internal audit, and how results are communicated, you can ensure it is effective and fit for purpose.
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17 Feb 20
Audits are an essential part of the global financial system, but more needs to be done to ensure that their quality is consistently high, the president of the International Federation of Accountants...
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22 Jan 20
Difficulties recruiting teachers poses a risk for the Slovakian education system, which will need 10,000 more teachers in the next few years.
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17 Jan 20
Dutch auditors are helping Sudan’s National Audit Chamber to push for better public finance management and stamp out corruption.
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14 Jan 20
The Latvian government has been urged to develop a solution to tackle the country’s crumbling housing stock.
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9 Dec 19
The managing director of the IMF Kristalina Georgieva has hailed Ukraine’s “impressive” economic progress and approved a $5.5bn loan over three years.
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6 Dec 19
France’s Court of Audit has given authorities in the country 11 recommendations to fight tax fraud.
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4 Dec 19
Auditors have called on the EU to impose stronger rules on its member countries’ budgets, to avoid future financial crises.
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3 Dec 19
Spending €1 on health initiatives for children aged between three and 11 leads to a return of €1.30 in the future, auditors in Lithuania have found.
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28 Nov 19
The EU now meets “high standards of accountability and transparency when spending public money”, the European Court of Auditors has concluded.
4 Feb 21A five-year programme aimed at building the capacity of Madagascar’s Court of Accounts has been unveiled in Antananarivo.
4 Dec 20Claire Schouten and Vivek Ramkumar from the International Budget Partnership give examples of how cooperation between spending watchdogs and civil society have brought benefits for people.
30 Nov 20Central banks have promised the end of any further changes to the Basel III framework, introduced to manage risks following the global financial crisis of 2007-09.
12 Nov 20Supreme audit institutions face huge pressure to ensure government spending advances the public interest and aids progress of countries’ development, and need help to make their oversight full and...
10 Nov 20EU spending was impacted by too many errors, particularly in high-risk areas, the European Court of Auditors’ annual report for the 2019 financial year found.
13 Oct 20Auditors have urged France to cut spending on health insurance payments after projecting the social security system deficit will balloon by more than 20 times its size this year.
4 Sep 20Just one-quarter of recommendations made by the EU to member states were fully or substantially implemented in seven years, leading to slow progress in areas such as poverty alleviation, auditors...
4 Sep 20South Africa’s auditor-general found a “high risk” of fraud and abuse in the country’s multi-billion rand Covid-19 stimulus package, with money having been improperly paid out and serious fears of...
28 Jul 20Problems with the publicly owned company managing the Eiffel Tower have led auditors to suggest the City of Paris could bring the monument back under direct control.
9 Jul 20Governments and organisations, including multilateral development banks, are funding tens of billions of dollars in development projects and programs to help countries respond to Covid-19. The...
30 Jun 20France should undertake an “in-depth review” of its public spending policies in order to rebuild its economy and stop government debt spiralling, the country’s state auditor has said.
12 Jun 20A wave of fraudulent unemployment-benefit claims has led the state audit office in Washington to launch a review into the US state government’s Employment Security Department.
22 May 20The US spending watchdog has told the government it could save tens of billions of dollars by reducing overlap and duplication in its programmes.
28 Apr 20Emmanuel Macron’s “expensive” response to the ‘yellow vest’ movement is partly to blame for France’s public deficit rising in 2019, the country’s court of auditors has found.
21 Apr 20By thinking about how to plan an internal audit, and how results are communicated, you can ensure it is effective and fit for purpose.
22 Jan 20Difficulties recruiting teachers poses a risk for the Slovakian education system, which will need 10,000 more teachers in the next few years.
14 Jan 20The Latvian government has been urged to develop a solution to tackle the country’s crumbling housing stock.
9 Dec 19The managing director of the IMF Kristalina Georgieva has hailed Ukraine’s “impressive” economic progress and approved a $5.5bn loan over three years.
3 Dec 19Spending €1 on health initiatives for children aged between three and 11 leads to a return of €1.30 in the future, auditors in Lithuania have found.
