INTOSAI meet on IT Audit The 14thh meeting of International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions’ Standing Committee on IT Audit began in Paro on Wednesday, 27th April.
More than 50 senior auditors from 21 countries including India, the United Kingdom, China, and Brazil are attending the meeting.
They will discuss auditing of e-government, use of modern technology in decision making, and computerized audit system.
Opening the three-day meeting, the Foreign Minister Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk said INTOSAI plays a vital role in ensuring good governance by promoting transparency, efficiency and accountability.
“The Royal Government, have always considered the Royal Audit Authority of Bhutan as an important body towards promoting a corruption free government and a proper utilization of our resources”, he said.
The foreign minister also highlighted the relevance of the meeting with government organizations becoming increasingly dependent on IT and computerized information.
“As a consequence, the reliability of computerized data and of the systems that process, maintain and report these data could be of concern to the auditors,” said Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk.
“The audit control and security of information systems are thus becoming more and more important as we become increasingly dependent on such systems”, added the Foreign Minister.
The INTOSAI Standing Committee meeting on IT Audit is expected to draw up strategies to enhance IT Auditing in the member countries.
It will also discuss issues related to corruption and auditing e-government. The participants will make presentations on the system of IT in their countries and on the different procedures of auditing.
Besides auditors from the member countries of INTOSAI, representatives from the International Development Initiative (IDI) are also attending the meeting.
IDI will look at the training modules and how they can support the training needs of the auditors. Bhutan became a member of INTOSAI in 2002.
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The Standing Committee on IT (Information Technology) Auditing of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions is meeting for the fourteenth time in Paro, Bhutan. On Wednesday the 27th, Bhutanese Foreign Minister Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk opened the conference, voicing support for the Bhutanese Auditing agency: "The Royal Government, have always considered the Royal Audit Authority of Bhutan as an important body towards promoting a corruption free government and a proper utilization of our resources."

Fifty auditors from 21 countries including Bhutan, India, China, the UK and Brazil are meeting for the conference. Part of the goal of the session is to share auditing experiences, and help each other understand how computers affect auditing. Specific strategies on auditing e-governance, the use of IT technology, and using a computerized auditing system will be discussed.