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TANWIR ALI AGHA
Auditor General of Pakistan
Secretary General ECOSAI

Vision:
To strengthen the legislative oversight by providing an independent and objective assessment of the process of governance and financial management at all tiers of government.

Strategy:
Our audit strategy is to assess the level of materiality, inherent risk and control environment based on the presumption that all evidence come from the performance of substantive procedures. This strategy is designed by thorough understanding of the organisation objectives and performance targets.

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National Role

International Activities

Important Goal:

Audit all expenditure from the Consolidated Fund of the Federation and of each Province and to ascertain whether the moneys shown in the accounts as having been disbursed were legally available for, and applicabl to, the service or purpose to which they have been applied or charged and whether the expenditure confirms to the authority which governs it.

Audit all transactions of the Federation, Provinces and Districts relating to Public Accounts.
Audit all trading, manufacturing, profit and loss accounts and balance sheets and other subsidiary accounts kept by Order of the President or of the Governor of a Province in any Federal or Provincial department.
Audit, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the accounts of any authority or body established by the Federation or a Province, and in each case to report on the expenditure, transactions or accounts so audited by him.

Structural Innovative Interventions:

New Financial Audit Manual
Development and Supervision of Instruments and Working Paper Kit.
Sectoral Guidelines
Audit Command Language (ACL)
Audit Department Management (ADM Plus)

Achievements:
Certifications of Accounts of Federal Government for the year 2003-04 and Provincial Government Accounts for the year 2002-2003 have been completed and the reports have been submitted to the President and to the Governors of the provinces respectively.

Bottlenecks:
The posts of different cadres are lying vacant in FAOs which reduces the efficiency of Department in the achievement of the goal.