At the time of the global pandemic we are going on with our international cooperation.
Within the EU-funded twinning project at the Kosovo National Audit Office (KNAO), a teleconference Prishtina – Warsaw – Lisbon is being held on 28 April 2020 to discuss a draft KNAO audit report. The report is going to be published soon and is dedicated to the management of IT systems at one of the central institutions of Kosovo.
Within the twinning project two pilot IT audits have been carried out by Kosovo auditors with assistance from their Polish and Portuguese colleagues.
Auditing IT systems is becoming more and more crucial in the work of Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) all over the world, as the states rely to an ever greater degree on how effectively its institutions are able to use IT to provide its various services and function. IT has become practically omnipresent over the last decades.
It is therefore crucial for institutions like the Kosovo National Audit Office to have the needed capacities and resources, and be able to carry out effective audits in that area and to provide the Parliament, the government and the public with useful and reliable conclusions and recommendations.
This is why one of the topics of today’s meeting, except for the IT-related subject matter, is how to present audit conclusions and recommendations in an effective way, so that they can be easy to understand, and thus also easier to implement and follow up.