Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.

These standards require that the Board plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance as to whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.

In addition, the regional audit service centres will perform monitoring and immediate follow up in regard to the implementation of recommendations through the country office audits.

The Auditor shall perform such audit of the accounts of the Tribunal, including all trust funds and special accounts, as it deems necessary in order to satisfy itself

IIA standards require that internal auditors should make adequate use of technology based audit techniques to enable them, inter alia, to perform manually intensive tasks more economically and efficiently.

The Registry evaluated the above quotations, taking into account technical ability to perform the audit in accordance with generally accepted common auditing standard, the interest of the Tribunal and the best value for money.

The Investment Management Service will be easily able to use retained historical data from all data sources and will be better positioned to proactively verify data and perform in depth analysis and internal audit.

In paragraph 290 of the report, UNDP agreed with the Board's recommendation that it (a) perform adequate internal audit reviews based on the outcome of a treasury risk assessment and bearing in mind specialist areas (b) involve internal audit in assessing the overall adequacy of the information technology and risk management systems of the UNDP Treasury and (c) require internal audit to report regularly to the Investment Committee on matters relating to Treasury.

Audit opinion

Audit process

Audit opinion

External audit

Internal audit

Audit costs

Audit Division

Internal audit is conducted by a dedicated UNHCR Audit Service, which forms part of Internal Audit Division II that is headquartered at Geneva.

The UNHCR Audit Service, in close cooperation with the UNHCR Audit Coordinator in the Controller's Office, vigorously follows up on outstanding audit recommendations.

We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for the audit opinion.

The Audit Services Branch will update the checklist for the 2005 audit exercise.

Internal audit ratings

So we audit.

Audit the Fed?

Internal audit function

Scope of audit

OIOS Audit Service

UNHCR Audit Service

Perform action

At the present time, audit assignments are shared among the audit staff provided from the audit services of the members of the Board on an equal basis.

The Office of Audit and Performance Review has incorporated procedures in its country office audit guide to ensure that audit clauses are included in all project agreements.

One D 1 post would be redeployed from Internal Audit in New York to Internal Audit in Geneva to strengthen audit operations handled from the Geneva office.

25.6 Based on the standards for the professional practice of internal auditing, the Internal Audit Division will perform independent audits and make recommendations to mitigate risks, increase efficiency and effectiveness, and improve compliance with legislative mandates, regulations and rules by programme managers.

Last year, OIOS was unable to perform a planned audit of one country operation, even after persistent follow up by UNHCR headquarters as well as at the field level, because the auditor assigned to the project was unable to obtain the necessary visa.

The working group fully supported the resources requested for external audit ( 479,900) and internal audit ( 1,240,700).

The call for the 2004 audit of nationally executed projects emphasized the requirements for the audit.

Annual report and audit

Audit recommendation tracking dashboard

Independent Audit Advisory Committee

(c) Audit and Inspection

Subprogramme 1 Internal audit

OIOS, UNHCR Audit Service

The regularity audit will be taken forward through a pre final audit in the last quarter of 2005 and a final audit after the closure of the financial period.

These include the implementation of a web based audit recommendation tracking dashboard (http audit dashboard.undp.org) to manage corporate audit issues, and the establishment of a quality assurance function within the Bureau of Management (BOM) to analyze systemic issues arising from audit observations.

To ensure an effective internal audit mechanism, the Coordination Council has adopted a Charter for Internal Audit.

OIOS Audit of UNHCR Procurement (Audit report 03 03) of 6 February 2003, paragraphs 25 and 26.

The audits of Treasury and the relevant specialist areas have been included in the 2005 audit plan of the Internal Audit Section of the Office of Audit and Performance Reviews.