President of the Court of Audit Jana Ahčin upon the issue of the Annual report 2024 pointed out that the year 2024 will be remembered by the events that will leave indelible impression in the operations of the Court of Audit of the Republic of Slovenia. Among others, on 9 December 2024 we celebrated a remarkable jubilee – the 30th anniversary of setting up and beginning of successful operation of our supreme audit institution. This venerable anniversary reminded us on three decades of devoted efforts of our audit collective to produce notable professional achievements we recall with pride and joy.
At the same time, the Court of Audit has been subjected to tests that occurred in this modern times full of challenges but has learned an important lesson – namely it has developed increased awareness that the status of the highest independent authority for supervising public finance cannot be taken for granted even if undeniably conferred by the Constitution as the supreme law. The independence demands to be tenaciously fought for and to be promoted and attained every single day repeatedly despite multitude of challenges in our responsible audit work.
The Court of Audit also in 2024 followed its key principles – independence, objectivity and efficiency of its operations. Those values provide guidance to its work related to all activities, first when selecting audit programme, implementing audits and presenting audit findings, and finally when monitoring whether the proposed changes in the operations of the users of public funds were implemented respectively by enforcing the systemic regulations of individual fields of their operation.
In 2024, we were carrying out 108 audits and issued 51 audit reports and 11 post-audit reports. The audit reports pursued the objective of how transparency and accountability related to spending of public funds were improved, thus 95 auditees were reviewed whose total balance sheet of expenditure amounted to EUR 30.4 billion. The audits implemented addressed several important fields, namely: state budget, local self-government, justice, state assets, healthcare, education, sports, culture and art, public utility services, infrastructure and spatial planning, environment, political and social systems, as well as science.
Special attention was given to our on-going activities in the international environment, where the Court of Audit enjoys a great reputation of an expert and trustworthy supreme audit institution.
The President of the Court of Audit believes that the past three decades of our utterly dedicated and professional work have convincingly proved that the Court of Audit is a highly credible institution that has earned trust of the professional public, the citizens and taxpayers whose interests it represents as the guardian of public finance.
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Infographics of key results
Annual report 2024
