Regional News of Tuesday, 23 September 2008

Source: GNA

Two-week workshop for C/R Audit service opens in Agona Swedru

Agona Swedru (C/R) Sept. 23, GNA - The Assistant Auditor General, Mr. Cudjoe Quarshie has urged personnel of the Ghana Auditor Service to be honest and hardworking, to enable the service achieve its vision of becoming one the best Institutions in the world by 2010. Mr Quarshie said this at the beginning of a two-week Financial Audit Mobile Incentive Training workshop for 35 Audit personnel in Central Region at Agona Swedru. The participants drawn from Apam, Winneba, Saltpond, and Agona Swedru districts formed zone "B" group of the personnel. The workshop is under the theme "Basic Functions of Auditing". Personnel from zone, "A" made up of Cape Coast, Dunkwa-On-Offin, Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese and Assin-Fosu had had their turn. Mr Quarshie urged participants to attach seriously to the course, for them to be equipped with knowledge that would enhance their performances. He expressed the hope that at the end of the programme they would be able to set out the way in which legal obligations and other audit priorities will be achieve to enhance growth of the Audit Service. Mr Ishmael Kwarteng, Director of Training, and Reverend Joseph Ghunney, Principal Auditor, are the resource persons. Topics being treated including, gathering Audit evidence, developing good audit finding and audit legal frame work.