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The Ghana Audit Service is an independent government agency in Ghana that is responsible for carrying out the audits on the accounts of the Government, Regions as well as the activities of the Ministries, Departments, Agencies and Companies under the Government of Ghana. [1]
The auditor-general of Ghana is the head of the Ghana Audit Service, a legislative branch agency re-established by the government of Ghana in 1992 through the 1992 Constitution of Ghana. [1] It was established as part of the Audit Service through Article 188 of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana as part of the Public Services of Ghana.
In 2016, he was appointed by President John Mahama to serve as Auditor-General of Ghana. [2] [3] In his role as Auditor-General of the country, he also served as keynote speaker for public lectures on auditing, corruption and issues relating to management of finances [7] [8] [9] On 20 September 2018, he was the keynote speaker at the 3rd Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu Memorial Lecture.
Quartey is a trained accountant by profession. In 1976, he joined the Ghana Audit Service and Office of the Auditor-General, Ghana. In 2005, he served as the Auditor-General's Office representative on the Accounting Standards Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ghana to put together accounting standards for Ghana resulting in the Ghana National Accounting Standards. [7]
Government audit agencies in Russia (1 P) S. Single Audit (7 P) Supreme audit institutions (3 C, 59 P) ... Auditor-General of Ghana; Australian National Audit Office; B.
In July 2020, Aseidu assumed the position of acting Auditor-General of Ghana after his boss Daniel Yaw Domelevo was asked to go on accumulated leave of 167 working days. [2] [3] He continued in that role also from March 2021 following a controversial retirement of Domelevo till his elevation to Auditor-General of Ghana.
The genesis of the council however, dates back to the erstwhile National Research Council (NRC), which was established by the government [1] in August 1958 to organize and coordinate scientific research in Ghana. In 1963, the NRC merged with the former Ghana Academy of Sciences, a statutory learned society.
In Ghana the firm's activities also initially centered around European companies. In 1937, a change in law allowed private firms to audit government finances. Cassleton Elliott soon took control of auditing government agencies and departments in Ghana. [1] In the 1960s, Peat Marwick and Cassleton Elliott merged.