The regular 5th meeting of the Coordinating Council of the external state financial control bodies took place at the Accounts Committee

Representatives of the President's Administration, General Prosecutor's Office, Agency on fight against economic and corruption crimes (financial police), Ministry of finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Revision commissions' chairmen for the regions, Almaty and Astana cities took part in the work of the Coordinating Council.

 

During the meeting the problems of the typical risk management system applied for the control's planning and exercising, of following the standards of the state financial control by the Revision commissions, of monitoring the deficiencies and violations of the legislation detected during the inspections as well as of the execution of decisions of previous meetings of the Council were considered.

According to the results of the meeting it was recommended to create an interdepartmental working group to develop common principles and approaches to the risk management system. This decision is due to the fact that within the framework of transition to the state audit methods, which are currently used, do not fully comply with the new legislation's requirements.

There are incidents of the individual Revision commissions' non-compliance with the requirements of the approved standards of public financial control, which were revealed by the results of the Accounts Committee's control. Revision commissions' chairmen were recommended to provide for the strict compliance with the standards, and to send quality control service workers for training in the Audit Committee.

At the end of the meeting a plan of the Coordinating Council's work for 2014 was adopted.

Moreover, while staying of the Revision commissions' chairmen in Astana, a two-day seminar was organized specially for them at the Accounts Committee. During the seminar issues of the implementation of the public audit in the country, state financial control standards, holding parallel control measures, evaluation of the inspectors' work, etc. were considered.

The Coordinating Council of the external state financial control bodies is the consultative and advisory body to the Accounts Committee. The purpose of the Council is to promote the development and effective cooperation on the basis of common principles and methodology of work, by a collegial discussion of the most pressing problems. The Council includes a Chairman and two members of the Accounts Committee, Revision commissions' chairmen for the regions, Almaty and Astana cities.

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