It is worth noting that even the organizations that do not have an institutionalized audit committee have set up mechanisms to review internal and external audit matters as well as progress made in implementing audit recommendations.

The audit was based on the following broad audit objectives, mentioned by the Board in its progress report on the capital master plan (see A 58 321, para.

The Ministry of Women Development carried out an audit of the plan in 2002 to gauge progress.

Audit Recommendations

Internal audit

Audit opinion

Audit process

Internal audit

Audit opinion

External audit

Internal audit

Audit costs

Internal audit is conducted by a dedicated UNHCR Audit Service, which forms part of Internal Audit Division II that is headquartered at Geneva.

The UNHCR Audit Service, in close cooperation with the UNHCR Audit Coordinator in the Controller's Office, vigorously follows up on outstanding audit recommendations.

We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for the audit opinion.

The Audit Services Branch will update the checklist for the 2005 audit exercise.

Audit the Fed?

Internal audit ratings

Audit services 10.0

Internal audit function

Scope of audit

OIOS Audit Service

UNHCR Audit Service

The representative of IMO provided information on recent activities, including the adoption of new instruments and progress in the development of a voluntary member State audit scheme for IMO.

For this purpose, the Panel periodically requested progress reports from the Governments concerned on the conduct of their monitoring and assessment activities and expenditures of the funds awarded for those activities. The Panel reviewed these progress reports, including audit certifications on expenditures.

Annual report and audit

Audit recommendation tracking dashboard

Independent Audit Advisory Committee

(c) Audit and Inspection

One D 1 post would be redeployed from Internal Audit in New York to Internal Audit in Geneva to strengthen audit operations handled from the Geneva office.

An information security audit is an audit on the level of information security in an organization.

The working group fully supported the resources requested for external audit ( 479,900) and internal audit ( 1,240,700).

The regularity audit will be taken forward through a pre final audit in the last quarter of 2005 and a final audit after the closure of the financial period.

To ensure an effective internal audit mechanism, the Coordination Council has adopted a Charter for Internal Audit.

OIOS Audit of UNHCR Procurement (Audit report 03 03) of 6 February 2003, paragraphs 25 and 26.

(a) Audit services 10 000

Chairman, Philippine Commission on Audit

Management summary audit implementation status

(i) Accountability, audit and oversight

Table 1 Internal audit ratings

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Chairman, Philippine Commission on Audit

B. Technology based audit techniques

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Universal Security Audit Programme (USAP)