Simplified audit report process led to early detection of irregularities - Auditor-General

The process governing the Auditor-General's Report 2019 has been simplified and made quicker compared to the audit reports of previous years, and this has enabled non-compliance issues and audited entity losses to be detected promptly, Auditor-General Datuk Nik Azman Nik Abdul Majid said.

“When reported quickly, dubious payments can be stopped as the contract is still in effect, compared to contracts that expired in which we then have to bring the case to court and that usually takes a long time to conclude,” he said at the media conference in conjunction with the tabling of the AG's report in the Dewan Rakyat today.

For the 2019 report, compliance audit was carried out on three ministries and seven departments while for AG's Report 2019 Series 1, nine audits were done on federal government companies.

Nik Azman said there were 23 recommendations to assist ministries and federal departments, and 50 more recommendations on federal government companies to rectify identified weaknesses.

-- BERNAMA