Core Skills

Develop the foundational professional knowledge, behaviours and skills required to work effectively within a Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) environment.

Ethics (minimum of 3 hours every three years required)

Understand obligations to always act with integrity, behave professionally/ethically and have personal accountability

  • IDI Professional Education for SAI Auditors (PESA) cross-cutting paper on demonstrating professional behaviour in a SAI context

Understand the role of SAIs within a public financial management system

  • PESA cross-cutting paper on the value and benefits of SAIs
  • Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy Certificate in Performance Audit Fundamentals:
    Module 1: Public sector governance for auditors
  • Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy free online micro module:
    Mandates of Supreme Audit Institutions

Understand the fundamentals of what public sector auditing is, what it involves and auditing standards

  • PASAI Online Fundamentals of Public Sector Auditing Course
  • Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy Certificate in Performance Audit Fundamentals:
    Module 2: Introduction to public sector auditing
  • Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy free online micro module:
    Public Sector External Audit – the Fundamentals

Communication skills to effectively work with SAI colleagues and staff in audited entities

IT and time management skills to effectively and efficiently complete work

  • PASAI potentially partners with a provider of Microsoft training programmes to negotiate access to training for PASAI members at a competitive rate based on collective demand across PASAI members
  • PASAI develops a Fundamentals of Time Management online course or webinar
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IT and time management skills

Interpersonal Communication Course