EUROSAI. Magazine N18 - 2012

> 24 < EUROSAI ACTIVITIES EUROPEAN ORGANISATION OF SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS www.eurosai.org No. 18 - 2012 n Mr Massimo Magnini, a representative of EUROSAI IT Working Group “ The participants had the opportunity to follow not only speeches but also several online demos and have demonstrated a large interest concerning self’s developed Audit management Systems, particularly for the different approaches concerning the Risk Management module and for the customized features. It is considered as very important that audit planning is automatically based on risk analysis and system is designed to track the action taken on the recommendations. Thepresentations indicate that different SAIs areat different levels of development which range from automating a few processes to a fully integrated system; these systems have been developed using different platforms and methods ( SharePoint seems to be one of the most used). These results can also constitute a valuable input to the activities of EUROSAI ITWG.” n Mr Emanuele Fossati, IT Service Manager, European Court of Auditors “Being involved ourselves in a major project about the modernisation of our Audit Tools, we found all the presentations very interesting (especiallywhere live systems were shown) and thanks to the coffee breaks dedicated to networking, we came home with new ideas to be explored. We were mainly interested in seeing other Courts ’ different approaches to Audit Document Management on one side, and Audit Process Management on the other: we could see good examples of very different strategies, mainly depending on the specific type of SAI ’s management and institutional objectives. We wanted to see if there was a “best in class” approach, but we understood that everybody heavily tailored their systems. Another very rich area that captured our attention concerned the various experiences in CAAT, mainly “automated” data gathering and statistical analysis, because it couldmake auditors workmore efficient and effective.” n Mr Darius Sˇ alalis, Principal Auditor, National Audit Office of Lithuania—The seminar was surprisingly interesting and informative “ At the first glance more than 20 presentations during such a short period of time looked as overload of the seminar without giving a chance to know information systems of sister-institutions as well as to learn the principles and goals of their creation. The reality was completely converse to the first impression.