Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) of the United Kingdom – National Audit Office (NAO), which hosted Young EUROSAI 2019 Conference in November 2019, continued with then started activities and prepared a video summarizing the resolutions reached (links are attached below). The central topic of the Conference was the question of how to communicate the findings to the audiences and thereto related challenges the SAIs are faced with.
The representatives of the SAI Slovenia together with their colleagues from SAI Germany held the workshop titled Better content together with better communication and Taking on the challenge of changing information habits. In the first part of their presentation our auditors focused on a fresh approach of the SAI Slovenia to defining and selecting topics relevant from the sustainable point of view, as well as future audits pertaining to the common field of information technology. In the second part they addressed current communication forms and channels the Court of Audit uses for the purpose of public relations, which were particularly well received by the Conference attendees. During the Conference itself and also on Twitter our SAI was repeatedly praised for the forms of reporting used, namely for our infographics and animated videos.
NAO Auditor General, Gareth Davies, informed the President of the Court of Audit, Tomaž Vesel, that several crucial issues the SAIs should consider in future were touched on during the Conference. Furthermore, the Auditor General also revealed that it is not to end the discussions about those issues with this Conference but we should all strive to further in depth examination of those topics at all levels, including at the next EUROSAI Congress and the next Young EUROSAI Conference.
The Court of Audit believes that joint cooperation of SAIs and exchange of good practices as well as potential difficulties are important for greater outputs of the implemented audits and consequently for more efficient use of public money.
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