EUROSAI IT Working Group
Report on Activities
June 2011 to September 2012
Jacek Jezierski
SUPREME AUDIT OFFICE OF POLAND
www.nik.gov.pl
Tibilisi, 17 Septmeber 2012
About the IT Working Group
31 May 2002: The IT Working Group was established by
the Vth EUROSAI Congress in Moscow
Membership 2012: 31 SAIs
Chair 2002-2008: Ms. Saskia Stuiveling, SAI of the
Netherlands
Chair 2008-present: Mr. Kurt Grüter, SAI of Switzerland
Jacek Jezierski
SUPREME AUDIT OFFICE OF POLAND
www.nik.gov.pl
Tibilisi, 17 Septmeber 2012
Workplan 2011-2014
Two strategic areas as approved by the EUROSAI
Congress in Lisbon, June 2011:
I. E-Governance and electronic service delivery
II. Developing the capacity of SAIs to meet their strategic
goals
Jacek Jezierski
SUPREME AUDIT OFFICE OF POLAND
www.nik.gov.pl
Tibilisi, 17 Septmeber 2012
Collaboration with Goal Team 3
It is important to carefully consider how the existing
Working Groups and Task Forces should relate to the
goals, activities and reporting of Goal Team 3
(„Knowledge Sharing”) of the EUROSAI.
A meeting between the SAIs of Czech Republic, Norway,
Poland and Switzerland took place in Spring 2012.
EUROSAI Seminar “Application of software tools in
audits”, Prague, 18-19 September 2012.
Goal Team 3 and the IT Working Group strive to
coordinate their future activities and training programmes
in an optihe best way.
Jacek Jezierski
SUPREME AUDIT OFFICE OF POLAND
www.nik.gov.pl
Tibilisi, 17 Septmeber 2012
E-Government Subgroup
The E-Government subgroup, now under the lead of
Supreme Audit Office of Poland, is going to meet in
Warsaw on 15-16 November 2012.
The E-Government subgroup met in October last year
and came to an agreement on the project shape and the
action procedure
The E-Government subgroup has as mission to complete
testing the redeveloped Framework and make it available
to the EUROSAI membership.
The planned activities for the fourth work period are the
implementation of a process for the operational phase of
managing the E-Government framework (Control Space).
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SUPREME AUDIT OFFICE OF POLAND
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Tibilisi, 17 Septmeber 2012
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Jacek Jezierski
SUPREME AUDIT OFFICE OF POLAND
www.nik.gov.pl
Tibilisi, 17 Septmeber 2012
Expected Advantages
Wider use of other SAIs’ audits:
giving the auditors’ community deeper insights into the
SAIs’ reports
providing risk analysis cases based upon broad and
versatile audit experience
enhancing audit life-cycle approach
ITWG vocabulary stabilised
Support for EUROSAI Strategic Goal 3: Knowledge Sharing
Encourage cooperation and exchange of experience among
EUROSAI members, within INTOSAI and with external
partners.
The E-Government subgroup, now under the lead of
Supreme Audit Office of Poland, is going to meet in Warsaw
on 15-16 November 2012 and we hope that by this time the
tool will come out from the proptotype phaze.
Jacek Jezierski
SUPREME AUDIT OFFICE OF POLAND
www.nik.gov.pl
Tibilisi, 17 Septmeber 2012
E-Government Resolution
In line with strategic goal 3, “Knowledge Sharing” the
VIIIth EUROSAI Congress in Lisbon approved the
following resolution:
The EUROSAI members are encouraged to provide the
EUROSAI IT Working Group with significant IT related
audit reports with at the least an executive summary in
English.
Kindly contribute!
Jacek Jezierski
SUPREME AUDIT OFFICE OF POLAND
www.nik.gov.pl
Tibilisi, 17 Septmeber 2012
Working Group on Information
Technologies Subgroups
IT Self-assessment (ITSA) Subgroup (which belongs to
the strategic area II) not only fosters communication
within an individual SAI but also highlights the common
problems often shared by different SAIs.
Subgroup “Information System to support the Audit
Process” with a mission to discuss and exchange views
about introducing and operating improved Audit
Management software.
The IT Audit Self-assessments (ITASA) (which belongs
to the strategic area II) dealing with questions such as :
Do you apply the audit standards correctly? Do you
include IT risks when auditing financial statements?
ITSA and ITASA are the self-assessments developed by
methodology of the EUROSAI Working Group.
Jacek Jezierski
SUPREME AUDIT OFFICE OF POLAND
www.nik.gov.pl
Tibilisi, 17 Septmeber 2012
Rollout of ITSAs into ARABOSAI and AFROSAI
Sharing experiences with other INTOSAI regions. The
ITSA method was introduced in the AROBOSAI and
AFROSAI regions.
The SAI of the Netherlands is the leader for AFROSAI-E
and ARABOSAI.
The SAI of Switzerland is the leader for AFROSAI-F.
In May 2011: ITSA was performed in Senegal, by the
SAIs of France and Belgium. The SAI of Cameroun,
which was invited as observer, apologised for not being
able to participate.
Because of the political situation, no new ITSAs have
been conducted in the ARABOSAI countries.
Jacek Jezierski
SUPREME AUDIT OFFICE OF POLAND
www.nik.gov.pl
Tibilisi, 17 Septmeber 2012
Training
The idea of organising a training event in connection with
the ITWG meeting in Paris is postponed till 2013.
The Chair will notify member SAIs in time about the
training plans for the next year.
The SAIs may also take the initiative and send the Chair
further topics of interest for training events prior to the
2013 meeting.
In Istanbul participants were requested to inform other
member SAIs of any relevant national training event
which is open to participants from other institutions.
Jacek Jezierski
SUPREME AUDIT OFFICE OF POLAND
www.nik.gov.pl
Tibilisi, 17 Septmeber 2012
Distribution of knowledge and best practices
The Chair has the mission to coordinate the sharing of
relevant auditing information to all EUROSAI members.
The Chair strives to keep the IT Working Group website
up-to-date (www.eurosai-it.org).
All the reports received, with at least an English
summary, are published under “Publications” in the
public section and forwarded to SAI of Poland
(leader of E-Government subgroup).
Jacek Jezierski
SUPREME AUDIT OFFICE OF POLAND
www.nik.gov.pl
Tibilisi, 17 Septmeber 2012
Thank you for your attention 
Jacek Jezierski
SUPREME AUDIT OFFICE OF POLAND
www.nik.gov.pl
Tibilisi, 17 Septmeber 2012