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The NAO is the auditor of bodies funded directly by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The NAO reports to the Comptroller and Auditor General who is an officer of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and in turn reports to the Public Accounts Commission, a statutory body established under section 2 of the National Audit Act 1983.
National Audit Office may refer to audit authorities of various national governments: Australian National Audit Office , an agency of the federal Commonwealth government, established 1901 Bundesrechnungshof ('Federal Court of Auditors'), the Germany body, re-established in West Germany in 1948
The Director General approves the audit plan and decides on the reports and audit instructions to be submitted to the Parliament. [13] The National Audit Office consists of three units: the Audit Unit, the Oversight Unit, and the Shared Services Unit. [13] The Audit Unit is responsible for conducting financial, performance, and compliance audits.
The Public Accounts Commission is a UK body created under the National Audit Act 1983 to audit the National Audit Office, i.e., to watch the watchers. [1] [2] Commission reports are available to the public. [3]
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The office of C&AG was created by the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866, which combined the functions of the Comptroller General of the Exchequer, who had authorised the issue of public moneys from the Treasury to other government departments, with those of the Commissioners of Audit, who had presented the government accounts to the Treasury). [2]
It was the first ever set of audited financial statements for the UK public sector. The 2009-10 WGA brings together, for the first time, audited financial information from the UK’s central government, local government, the National Health Service (NHS) and public corporations.
The Northern Ireland Audit Office [1] is an independent public body which was established by the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 18 March 1987. It has overall responsibility for auditing on behalf of the Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland, across all sectors of government in Northern Ireland, except those reserved to the UK government.