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The NAOL is accountable to the Parliament, which appoints the
Auditor General, as well as fixes
and allocates the appropriations for the National Audit Office budget.
The achievement of the mission of the NAOL depends to a significant
extent on the impact of the products of the audit process - the audit
reports. This impact is achieved through consideration of the audit
reports by the Parliament Committee on Audit, the interrogation of
witnesses from the institutions responsible for the audited entities.
While implementing its functions, the National Audit Office of Lithuania
cooperates both with the Parliament as a whole and its separate
committees. Since our main "partner" is the Committee on Audit it
coordinates the activities of the other committees when considering the
issues of public audit.
The Committee on Audit considers most of performance audit reports and
financial (regularity) audit reports and opinions, when auditors issue
qualified or adverse opinion, or disclaimer of opinion on financial
accounts. The Parliament Committee on Audit after considering audit
reports passes a decision concerning the implementation of the NAOL
recommendations and it can also draft a Parliament resolution concerning
the implementation of the audit recommendations. Cooperation with the
Parliament ensures better control of how taxpayers' money is used;
citizens can influence government spending via legislators, NAOL audit
findings become a solid basis for effective parliamentary control and
scrutiny, and parliamentary control is more efficient and transparent.
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