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1864 - 2014 150 years of existence
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The Romanian Court of Accounts’Good Practices in Application of INTOSAI
GOVs
Svetlana MuresanSvetlana Muresan
external public auditor
RCoA
Meeting of the INTOSAI Subcommittee on Internal Control Standards
27-28 May 2014, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Agenda
1. The activity of the RCoA
2. The audit standards of RCoA
3. The implementation of the INTOSAI GOVs
4. Good practices
5. Collaboration with institutions and professional organizations
6. Conclusions
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Performance Audit
Financial Audit
Compliance Audit
External public audit of EU funds
Member of the European Court of
Auditors
Gives advisory opinions
International cooperationReporting
Activity of the RCoA
Monitory actions to comply with the
measures set
Documentary actions
upon request by the Senate or by the Chamber of Deputies, on
the state budget draft;
draft laws in the field of public finances and accounting;
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SECONDARY LEGISLATIONSECONDARY LEGISLATION
The Audit Standards of the RCoA
The Constitution of Romania
(art. 140)
Law no. 94/1992
on the organization and operation of the
Court of Accounts
The Audit Standards of the RCoA
GUIDELINES for the audit of internal control and internal audit functions;
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The Implementation of the INTOSAI GOVs
In March 2011 a Guidelines for the assessment of public entities internal control system was issued by the professional staff of the RCoA and made available to all external auditors in the form of a brochure; it was also posted on the website.
The INTOSAI Guidance for Good Governance (INTOSAI GOV 9100 - 9150) translated into Romanian was incorporated in this brochure and also posted on the website.
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For the purpose of promoting good governance, public internal financial control was implemented in the public sector and includes:
internal/managerial control system; internal audit; centralised coordination and harmonisation of the two
components above.
The concept of Public Internal Control in Romania
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GOOD PRACTICES
The RCoA made proposals for legislative improvement in the field of internal control and internal audit in the public sector (CHU) .
Submitted to the Romanian Parliament and recently embodied in the changes of normative acts.
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Some changes:Training and certification for internal auditors
- Internal auditors have the obligation to obtain a national certification, within five years from the entry into force of the law. The national system for the certification of internal auditors, administered by the CHU PIA, is based on the recognition of the competences, capabilities and values acquired by the auditors during their basic training and lifelong professional training, within the nationally acknowledged higher education institutions, in accordance with the ‘Competence framework of public sector internal auditors’, as approved by the Public Internal Audit Committee (PIAC).
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Public Internal Audit Committee (PIAC)
In Romania, the PIAC operates, in accordance with law, as a consultative body organised under the CHU PIA (MoPF) that carries out actions with a view to defining the strategy and improving the public internal audit activity in the public sector.
The law provides for the establishment, at the level of those main authorising institutions within the public central administration that have an annual budget exceeding RON 2 billion, of audit committees made up of three to seven members, with tasks similar to those of the PIAC within the MoPF.
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The relationship between public internal audit and public external audit
The RCoA is in charge of the external evaluation of the public internal audit activity of the verified legal persons. The opportunities for cooperation and collaboration between public internal audit and external audit are valorised through a protocol concluded between the AAIR and the RCoA.
While safeguarding the independence and objectivity of the public internal audit and external audit, the protocol regulates the relations between the two institutions according to the complementarity principle with regard to increasing the efficiency of the audit activity, aligning the methodological framework, ensuring the professional training of the auditors and exchanging information.
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SOME ACHIEVMENTS
1. Development of a Questionnaire for external public auditors to asses the internal audit activity regarding:- independence, - human resources sufficiency activities,- competence,- recommendations etc.
2. Regular meetings/workshops between experts of RCoA, AAIR and MoF in order to harmonize the views or identifying solutions to issues/difficulties in internal control (at least quarterly).
The results of these workshops will result in the issuance of some clarifications regarding the application of internal control standards.
3. Regular exchanges of experience between internal and external auditors on techniques, methods and tools used in audit missions on similar themes.
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Some internal regulations reviewedfor the implementation of the INTOSAI GOVs in
the activity of the RCoA
The Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
of the Court of Accounts’ Staff
It sets ethical and professional conduct
norms and establishes principles to be
followed to increase the authority and
prestige of the RCoA as a supreme audit
institution.
The Statute of the External Public Auditor
It regulates the career, rights and obligations of
external public auditors, as well as the labor relations between them and the Court of
Accounts.
Updating :• Norms for
evaluating the work of external public
auditors;• Recruitment policy;• Delegation rules;• Developing
procedures on the specific activities; • Policy of sensitive
functions;• Reviewing the organizational structure etc.
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National Trade Register Office
National Institute of Statistics
State Construction Inspectorate
Ministry of Public Finances
Competition Council
Internal Audit Association
Collaboration with institutions and professional organizations
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 TOTAL
2.0242.773 2.751 2.317 2.233
12.098
In the period 2009-2013were checked 12.098
entities
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 TOTAL
245
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65 64 73
574Certificates of compliance issued by the Court under the period 2009-2013
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CONCLUSIONS
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