THE closing ceremony of Fresh­er Course 2/2022 for Assistant Senior Auditors was held at 12:30 pm on 8 July at the As­sembly Hall of the Office of the Auditor-General of the Union, Nay Pyi Taw.

At the ceremony, Prof Dr Kan Zaw, the Union Audi­tor-General, delivered an ad­dress that the training was designed to teach the auditors theoretically and practically to conduct audits proficiently; the auditors should try to meet professional competence and maintain a good relationship between auditors and auditees; to understand well leadership and followership; and, accord­ingly, the achievement of audit objectives is essential because teamwork is crucial to auditing; it is important for auditors to comprehend and be compliant with the auditing and account­ing standards, civil service per­sonnel law, civil service person­nel rules, financial rules, and auditors’ ethics, as being the auditors who audit the public funds according to the motto of “ Steering to improve Public Financial Management”.

Therefore, he emphasized that the accomplished trainees should endeavour to be good civil servants who can perform their duties faithfully for the in­terests of the office and nation and continue learning for ex­pertise in the professional field.

During the one-month face-to-face training, two from the head office and one from the Union Territory, and 37 from the regions and states, totalling 40 trainees, attended.