The importance of an organized system of internal audit for government

Last week, the Institute of Internal Auditors Local Chapter held a two-day workshop/seminar under the theme, “Transparent Governance (Accountability for Public Funds; Internal Audit Impact in Financial Integrity). The facilitator was Ms. Claire Gomez-Miller, instructor from the Institute of Internal Auditors and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Trinidad and Tobago. I was asked to give the opening remarks, and the following are the main points of my presentation:

The theme of the workshop/seminar is highly relevant to the situation we are faced with today