BPK Strengthens Performance Audit Capacity through Senior Management Dialogue with ANAO
JAKARTA, Humas BPK - The Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia (BPK) held a Senior Management Dialogue (SMD) with the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) in order to strengthen the capacity of performance audits.
The activity carried out from October 8 to 9, 2019 was aimed at discussing some of the latest audit issues in both institutions, including partnership procurement and ensuring value for money, quality assurance on performance audits, and compliance audits.
Starting the series of SMDs, BPK Vice Chairman, Bahrullah Akbar, received the ANAO delegates during the courtesy meeting at the BPK Head Office in Jakarta. The ANAO delegates were led by Jane Meade, the Group Executive Director of Professional Services and Relationships, who was accompanied by Deborah Jackson, the Executive Director of Performance Audit Group, and Kristian Gage, the ANAO Senior Advisor.
Bahrullah Akbar expressed his appreciation for the collaboration between BPK and ANAO, which has existed for more than 13 years, particularly in the development of audit and institutional capacities.
The Vice Chairman especially expressed his gratitude for the assistance provided by ANAO in the improvement of performance audits. The series of SMD activities was expected to run well and bring benefits to both institutions.
Meanwhile, the ANAO Delegates represented by Jane Meade also expressed their gratitude for the commitment of the two institutions in working together and sharing knowledge and experiences in the audit field.
Through this activity, ANAO as well hoped to be able to learn about compliance audits, as it currently developed that audit methods. ANAO expected that the good cooperation existing so far can be continued in the future.
The agenda of the first day of SMD was the dialogue on the methodology of compliance audits. The second day of the meeting was the discussion regarding procurements related to large-scale infrastructure projects through public-private procurement. BPK and ANAO was also discussing about the audit approach used by the two SAIs and the assessment and the evaluation of the value for money from the audit perspective.
During the last discussion about the quality assurance, ANAO distributed a new quality assurance framework that was being initiated by the institution, including the use of root caused analysis.