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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 Parliament appoints the Director General of the National Audit Office for a term of six years. Since January 2022, the Director General of the Audit Office has been Sami Yläoutinen. [5] At the end of 2022, the office had 145 employees. [6] The main office of the agency is located in Helsinki, with another office in Oulu. [7]
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]
A supreme audit institution is an independent national-level institution which conducts audits of government activities. [1] [2] Most supreme audit institutions are established in their country's constitution, and their mandate is further refined in national legislation. [3]
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The office moved to Canberra in 1935, in line with Government policy at that time. The Audit Act 1901 was amended in 1979 to allow the Audit Office to undertake performance audits ("efficiency reviews"). [11] Efficiency reviews, or performance audit, concerns the efficiency and effectiveness of a particular government activity.
The Treasury first published a scoping study for WGA in July 1998. WGA are prepared under Sections 9 to 11 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 and cover the whole of the UK public sector (central government, local government, health, and public corporations). [2]