Audit 101
Educational content aimed at explaining our role as an institution and various auditing terms used within our reports through easy-to-understand analogies.
What does the auditor-general do?
The AG checks the spending of public money by looking at whether it has been used ideally and for the purposes intended.
GOVERNMENT SPENDING
This is done by checking all government spending yearly, and this is called an audit.
Different outcomes to an audit
Each entity submits financial statements every year, which the AG audits.
