The strengthening of SAI’s quality assurance systems for financial audits was identified as one of the priority needs during the IDI-CAROSAI Capacity Building Needs Assessment Survey carried out in 2008.
Consequently, Miss Marsha V E Meade, Deputy Auditor General and Miss Roselyn J Allen, Audit Manager attended a Quality Assurance in Financial Audits Workshop in Kingston Jamaica from 7-16 September 2009.
The auditors are expected to carry out QA reviews in their SAI and test the QA manual. The teams will reconvene in December 2009 for a peer and expert feedback on their QA reviews. At the end of this programme, each participating SAI would have a team trained in conducting QA reviews for financial audits and a QA manual adapted to their environment and in line with international best practice.