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The Auditor General is the statutory external auditor of most of the Welsh public sector.
Our key strength is our wide range of skills and knowledge that has arisen from our position as the the statutory external auditor
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Our accounts are audited by an independent firm appointed by the Welsh Parliament.
Our Executive Leadership Team is responsible for directing the organisation
The Auditor General is responsible for auditing most of the public money spent in Wales.
Audit Services has a reach of over 800 public bodies across Wales covering financial and performance audit
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Our forward work programme for performance audit
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Our Annual Plan covers the period from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 and includes additional information on our longer-term ambitions and key performance indicators.
In our Annual Plan, the Auditor General and Wales Audit Office Chair of the Board outlines our priorities for the next 12 months.
On behalf of the people of Wales, and entirely independent of government, we examine public spending and identify ways to improve public services.
We audit around £21 billion of income and expenditure, which is over a quarter of Welsh GDP. Increasingly, we are considering the stewardship of human and natural resources alongside our consideration of financial resources and the way in which public bodies account for their use.
As the public sector in Wales continues to grapple with the impact of COVID-19, this document outlines our priorities for the next 12 months, both in terms of our audit work and our running of the business.
Audit plays a vital role in providing the public, politicians, decision-makers and influencers with the information and assurance they need about how well public money is being spent. This is even more important in these extraordinary times as we see huge pressures on public services and our audit work programme will reflect this.
Though the roll-out of the vaccination programme gives us hope of some light at the end of the tunnel, we are conscious that current pressures are extreme and frontline services must be prioritised. As such, we will keep a degree of flexibility within our 2021-22 programmes of work and sharing of good practice to enable this and to allow us to respond to emerging developments.
During 2021, we intend to undertake a further review of our suite of KPIs, as part of a wider assessment of progress made towards achieving the ambitions set out in our 2019-20 Annual Plan. This assessment will help inform the content of our 2022-23 Annual Plan and clarify our strategic vision for Audit Wales for the next five years.