The Accounts Committee took part in ECOSAI seminar on IT Audit

The Accounts Committee took part in ECOSAI seminar on IT Audit

Representatives of the Accounts Committee for Control over Execution of the Republican Budget took part in five-day online ECOSAI seminar on IT Audit from 17 to 21 January 2022.    

The seminar was organized and moderated by the Supreme Audit Institution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The seminar was attended by 50 representatives from 18 countries SAIs:  The Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Vietnam, the Republic of India, the Republic of Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Iraq, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the State of Qatar, the State of Kuwait, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the State of Palestine, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Republic of Turkey, Turkmenistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Republic of the Philippines.     

A welcome speech is presented by President of SAI Iran - Dr. Mehrdad Bazrpash, Deputy Auditor General of the SAI of India - Mr. K.R. Sriram, as Chair of INTOSAI WGITA and Mr. Rassul Rakhimov, Member of the Accounts Committee of Kazakhstan - President of ECOSAI.

At the opening ceremony, Dr. Mehrdad Bazrpash expressed satisfaction on hosting of the first training course planned in the ECOSAI Training Plan in the new year.           Dr. Mehrdad Bazrpash announced the readiness of SAI Iran to form a working group focusing on information technology auditing in line with INTOSAI policies.

Iran places great emphasis on strengthening the role of information technology and builds its work on the principle "Technological and People-Based SAI".

Mr. Rassul Rakhimov, Member of the Accounts Committee, noted the increasing attention of the SAI of the ECOSAI member countries to the implementation of IT audit methodologies. In particular, on December 2021, at the 25th GB ECOSAI in Baku, it was decided to hold a number of online training seminars on this topic.

Iranian lecturers and scientists, in the scope of IT audit, elaborated and presented the most recent and practical techniques and methods of IT audit. Especially, COBIT (Control Objectives for Information Technology), CAATs (Computer-Assisted Audit Techniques) were discussed, and the achievements of the Electronic Government platforms and methodological recommendations on IT audit were presented.

Besides, representatives of SAIs of Turkey, Palestine, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan presented their country papers in the realm of IT audit.