Between October 14 and 19, 2010, members of the PEM PAL Internal
Audit Community of Practice (IA CoP) met in Bled, Slovenia for two back to back workshops to discuss and create a common
understanding about IA manual and design the Body
of Knowledge for public sector internal auditors. The meeting was organized by PEM PAL
Secretariat.
The workshop on Internal Audit manual was opened by Mr. Tomislav Mičetić, PEM
PAL IA COP Chair, and Ms. Senka Maver, Senior Program Manager, PEM PAL
Secretariat (Center of Excellence in Finance).
The participants discussed the way forward for IA COP in ways of creating a
common understanding about IA manual, identifying good
practices for IA manuals based on information received in advance and through discussion
on the workshop. Each country was also asked to reply on the questionnaire that
was sent to them prior the event.
After the weekend the second workshop on Training and Certification
took place.
The participants discussed how to create a common Body of Knowledge for
public sector internal auditors based on the Integration of results of Konrad
report (2008), IIA Body of Knowledge (BoK) for internal auditors and Internal
Audit Capability Model.
Some 25
representatives of ministries of finance from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Croatia, Georgia, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Turkey and
Ukraine attended both workshops. Participants emphasized that sharing of best
practices and experience is beneficial for learning from one another and
important for avoiding discrepancies.
Representatives of the donor institutions participated at the meeting as
observers. The OECD Sigma with Mr Jean Pierre Garitte, Mr Joop Vrolijk and Mr
Noel Hepworth provided important information to both workshops.
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The Consultancy on Regional Internal Audit Training and Certification report provides a detailed opinion in regard to the assumptions, potential risks and recommendations of the proposals of the training and certification programs (T&CP) provided by professional
associations including:
- a detailed overview of their advantages and disadvantages against a defined set of criteria in regard to the situation and needs of internal audit in the region;
- an understanding of how the respective T&CP that are proposed fit into the wider context of building up a professional internal audit function in the region of which the T&C is only one necessary part;
- the financial implications of the proposals in a medium-term (3 years) for governments as well as the need of external financing;
- a clear information on the time frame.
Report on Regional Internal Audit Training and Certification
Prepared by Frédéric Chetcuti
Commissioned by InWEnt under the PEMPAL program
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