The individuals in the audit team should collectively possess the knowledge, skills and expertise necessary to successfully complete the audit. This includes an understanding and practical experience of the type of audit being conducted, familiarity with the applicable standards and legislation, an understanding of the entity’s operations and the ability and experience to exercise professional judgement. Common to all audits is the need to recruit personnel with suitable qualifications, offer staff development and training, prepare manuals and other written guidance and instructions concerning the conduct of audits, and assign sufficient audit resources. Auditors should maintain their professional competence through ongoing professional development.
Where relevant or necessary
and in line with the SAI’s mandate and the applicable legislation, the auditor may use the work of internal auditors, other auditors or experts. The auditor’s procedures should provide a sufficient basis for using the work of others, and in all casesthe auditorshould obtain evidence of other auditors’ or experts’ competence and independence and the quality of the work performed. However, the SAI has sole responsibility for any audit opinion or report it might produce on the subject matter; that responsibility is not reduced by its use of work done by other parties.
The objectives of internal audit
are different from those of external audit. However, both internal and external audit promote good governance through contributions to transparency and accountability for the use of public resources, as well as economy, efficiency and effectiveness in public administration. This offers opportunities for coordination and cooperation and the possibility of eliminating duplication of effort. Some SAIs use the work of other auditors at state, provincial, regional, district or local level, or of public accounting firms that have completed audit work related to the audit objective. Arrangements should be made to ensure that any such work was carried out in accordance with public-sector auditing standards.
Superior products
ABB -- AC 800M controller, Bailey, PM866 controller, IGCT silicon controlled 5SHY 3BHB01 3BHEO0 3HNA00 DSOC series
BENTLY --- 3500 system/proximitor, front and rear cards, sensors, power modules, probes, cables
Emerson -- modbus card, power panel, controller, power supply, base, power module, switchEPRO --- Data acquisition module, probe, speed sensor, vibration sensor, shaft vibration transmitter, proximitor
FOXBORO - thermal resistance input/output module, power module, communication module, cable, controller, switch
GE --- module, air switch, I/O module, display, CPU module, power module, converter, CPU board, Ethernet module, integrated protection device, power module, gas turbine card
HIMA --- DI module, processor module, AI card, pulse encoder
Honeywell --- Secure digital output card, program module, analog input card, CPU module, FIM cardMOOG - servo valve, controller, module, power module
NI --- Information acquisition card, PXI module, card, chassis multi-channel control card
WESTINGHOUSE --- RTD thermal resistance input module, AI/AO/DI/DO module, power module, control module, base module
Woodward - Regulator, module, controller, governor
YOKOGAWA - Servo module, control cabinet node unit