Internal Audit Unit

Objective

To provide advisory services to the Accounting Officer in the proper and soundness use of financial Resources.

The Unit perform the following activities:-

• Prepare Strategic Audit Plans;
• Review and report on proper control over the receipt, custody and utilization of all financial resources of the Commission;
• Review and report on conformity with financial and operational procedures laid down in any legislation or any regulation or instructions over the expenditure of the Commission;
• Review and report on the correct classification and allocation of revenue and expenditure accounts;
• Review and report on the reliability and integrity of financial and operational data and prepare financial statements and other reports;
• Review and report on the systems in place used to safeguard assets, and as appropriate, the verification of the existence of such assets;
• Review and report on operations or programs to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and goals;
• Review and report on the adequacy of action by the management in response to internal audit reports, and assisting management in the implementation or recommendations made by those reports and also, where appropriate, recommendations made by the Controller and Auditor General;
• Review and report on the adequacy of controls built into computerized systems in place in the Commission;
• Coordinate audit programmes; and
• Conduct performance audit on appraisal of development projects.

This Unit is led by the Chief Internal Auditor.