HELPING OUT : PASAI Program Director, Susana Laulu (far right), facilitating a presentation on international compliance audit standards with staff from the Nauru Department of Audit
By Staff Writer
Two Samoan programme directors of the Pacific Association of Supreme Audit Institutions, PASAI, are working with the Nauru Department of Audit to provide staff technical support.
Susana Laulu and Sinaroseta Palamo-Iosefo started on the 20 January and are there for the next 2 weeks.
The pair is giving comprehensive support ranging from compliance audit capability building and fieldwork completion to HR, ethics systems and annual audit planning.
Nauru’s Auditor-General, Manoharan Nair, and his staff are relying on the PASAI directors’ technical expertise to enhance the audit office’s overall audit planning and ethics systems.
“This visit will enable us to review and update the office’s Code of Ethics and develop the office’s annual audit program,” Ms Palamo-Iosefo said,
The program directors will also help establish a comprehensive compliance audit methodology and conduct training sessions to equip staff with the necessary skills and knowledge to apply this methodology effectively.
Ms Laulu explained the training on compliance audit is practical and ‘on-the-job’ saying, “We will oversee and guide staff in conducting real compliance audit fieldwork on a local authority to ensure adherence to regulations and standards.”