Senior Auditor Mr. Shaushan Saeed participated in the ASOSAI Capacity Development Program Workshop on “Audit of Infectious Disease Prevention Programs in Post Covid-19 Situation” held in Vietnam. Through this workshop, participants gained a deep understanding of the subject matter relating to the public health sector and also learned to develop the right audit methodologies to address key risks in the healthcare sector.

Furthermore, the workshop was designed with a range of activities that enabled auditors to apply the knowledge they acquire to various real-world scenarios and included a visit to SAI Vietnam.

Manager Mr. Mohamed Ibrahim Jaleel, and Senior Auditor, Ms. Khadeeja Afsala Adam, successfully completed the second face-to-face interaction and graduation of the SAI Young leader initiative implemented by INTOSAI Development Initiative. The second interaction was held in Arusha, Tanzania. The participants developed and have implemented change strategies in AGO, with their appointed coaches. This programme included online education, social learning, emotional intelligence assessments and reflections portfolios which have enhanced the leadership capacities of the participants.

AGO facilitated a training on Preparing Financial Statements on IPSAS basis held online on 29-30 October 2023. The training was held in collaboration with Civil Service Commission. Senior Auditors from Financial and Compliance Audit Department, Ms. Mariyam Nushra from FC02 and Ms. Muzuna Khaleel from FC05 delivered the training for more than 40 participants from several government entities. 

Auditor General’s Office has reinvigorated its Information System(IS) audit function with new efforts to provide better assurance on significant information systems at public institutions.

To start off, AGO carried out an audit of Use of IT in the Valuation of Import Duties of Maldives Customs Service (MCS). In this audit, AGO looked at general controls in the IT environment of MCS and specific controls with respect to MCS’s valuation application, E-valuator. General controls that apply to all systems, components and processes and data were tested whilst in E-evaluator, specific application controls to ensure privacy and security of data used by and transmitted between applications were tested. The findings have been categorized into High, Medium and Low risks. These ratings are based on our judgment of severity of risks represented by the audit findings to the achievement of system objectives.