Good morning and welcome to the whole team.
The documentation provided to us by our analysts says that the main mandates of the Office of the Comptroller General are "providing government-wide direction and assurance for financial management and internal audit". It also says that "It uses internal audit to provide a level of assurance that departments have sound management controls in place". When I read "a level of assurance", I interpret it to mean that it is not total assurance, but a degree of assurance. There is therefore some vagueness between the two. I would like to ask a question about this.
Is the Auditor General is intervening in regard to this vagueness? She intervenes in an external audit capacity and identifies problems. As we know, she tables a report every year and regularly submits reports on various aspects of governance, and raises problems that we analyze and attempt to correct. Consequently, internal auditing does not properly audit all areas of management.
Could this situation be corrected at a later time?