EUROSAI. Magazine N18 - 2012

> 22 < EUROSAI ACTIVITIES EUROPEAN ORGANISATION OF SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS www.eurosai.org No. 18 - 2012 The preparatory team of the SAO drafted a questionnaire in order to collect relevant information about the current position of EUROSAI SAIs on the use of IT to support the audit processes. In this phase, the team received valuable inputs from EUROSAI IT Working Group, represented by Mr Kurt Grüter, the Director of Swiss Federal Audit Office and the Chair of IT WG EUROSAI and from the Head of sub-project of ITWG “Information System to Support Audit Process”, Ms Magdalena Cordero Valdavida, the Director of Information and Technologies Department of the European Court of Auditors. Based on the questionnaire answers, it was found out that half of addressed SAIs currently considers purchasing a new AMS or modifying the existing one. The high level of respondents’ interest in proposed seminar topics is indicated in the graph below. More than 70 participants from 26 EUROSAI member countries (Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Republic of Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Switzerland and Turkey), European Court of Auditors and representatives from ASOSAI (India, the Republic of Korea) attended the Seminar. The Seminar provided opportunities for exchange of experience and information related to recent developments in the area of the AMS and computer assisted audit tools and techniques and for in-depth discussions. It was organized as a series of panel sessions n The preparatory team of the SAO drafted a questionnaire in order to collect relevant information about the current position of EUROSAI SAIs on the use of IT to support the audit processes. n n The participants delivered 21 presentations during the two and a half days of the Seminar. n 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 5 4 3 2 1 SW for operating knowledge databases Software for archiving Data processing software Quality management The use of the AMS by the top management Evaluation of audits Application support of reporting Security in terms of accessibility Application support of working papers Preparation and Audit planning Monitoring of tasks, risk analysis and strategic EU funds co-financing Contractual terms of AMS development and operation AMS implementation Pre-implementation analysis What kind of AMS do we use? Note: The scale: 1 refers to not interested, 5 refers to very interested