State budget to get audit priority
The State Audit of Vietnam (SAV) will
give priority to auditing the State budget this year, according to
remarks made at a conference in Hanoi on Jan. 24.
The
agency said it would keep a close eye on all fields, ranging from
projects which have been invested in by the State budget, capital
utilisation, the management of State-owned groups and enterprises and
projects that are being financed by banking institutions.
The audit will provide information to the Communist Party and National Assembly.
The group will carry out 151 inspections this year in 34 provinces and
cities and at 20 ministries and central-level agencies. The SAV will
also process five special audits, while monitoring 28 groups, businesses
and financial-banking institutions. The group will also audit 39
building projects, eight national target programmes and 16 offices in
the national defence and security sectors, which will be a year-on-year
increase of 15.2 percent.
SAV Chief Auditor Vuong Dinh Hue
said they will audit Electricity of Vietnam (EVN); mining giant
Vinacomin, in order to provide a basis for the calculation of prices of
power and coal according to market mechanism; and Vietnam Shipbuilding
Industry Group (VINASHIN) will all be audited.
Hue
said the agency will focus on improving the professional skill and
political spirit of auditors as well as promoting and diversifying the
application of information and technologies in tandem with simplifying
administrative procedures in the auditing sector.
Speaking
at the conference, the National Assembly (NA)'s vice chairman Nguyen
Duc Kien asked the agency to specify tasks and accelerate strategies to
develop the auditing sector by 2020.
The agency's
activities should be congruent with the NA's programmes and be active in
implementing its tasks, improving its role within the State and
society, Kien said.
He said SAV should pay attention to
training and improving the quality of its auditors in accordance with
standards stipulated in the Law on State Audit. /.