Announcing the decision to audit the local budget in 2024 of Nghe An province

Comrades: Ha Thi My Dung - Deputy State Auditor General; Le Hong Vinh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee co-chaired the conference.

Attending the conference, leaders of Nghe An province were: Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Phung Thanh Vinh - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Standing member of the Provincial People's Council, leaders of departments, branches, units and localities.

The audit team includes comrades: Duong Quang Chinh - Chief Auditor of State Audit Region II; Dinh Van Dung - Deputy Chief Auditor of State Audit Region II, Head of the audit team and members of the team.

The objective of the audit is to confirm the truthfulness and reasonableness of financial information, local budgets, financial statements, and settlement reports of audited units; to evaluate compliance with the law, economic efficiency, and effectiveness of management and use of public finance and public assets of audited units and projects.

Recommend competent authorities to improve inadequate mechanisms and policies; promptly detect violations, acts of corruption, waste, and negativity, clearly identify the responsibilities of collectives and individuals, and recommend handling them according to legal regulations.

The audit content is the management and use of state budget revenues and expenditures, money and assets; compliance with laws, policies, financial and accounting management regimes and state investment and construction regimes.

The audit scope is 2024 and the relevant periods before and after the audited units. The audit location is the headquarters of the audited units; the audit starts on March 10 and ends on May 8.

Speaking at the conference, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Hong Vinh emphasized that the audit is a favorable condition for Nghe An province in reviewing data, reports, and activities related to the budget and investment projects in the province, creating favorable conditions for Nghe An in implementing the task of arranging and streamlining the organizational apparatus in the coming time.

Emphasizing that the coordination between the State Audit Office of Region II and Nghe An province, departments, branches and localities in recent times has been very favorable in all fields, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that the program, time and content of the audit were built very scientifically, suitable for practice and requirements.

Immediately after the conference, the Provincial People's Committee will assign the Department of Finance to be the focal agency to coordinate with the audit team in all areas. The audited departments, branches and units shall provide all relevant documents according to the team's outline; arrange and assign knowledgeable staff to explain relevant contents to the team; and implement the document confidentiality regime in accordance with regulations.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Hong Vinh also hopes that the State Audit Office of Region II, through the audit, will point out the advantages for the province to promote; the shortcomings and limitations to rectify and overcome in state management activities related to the budget and public investment projects in the province in the coming time, contributing to helping the province achieve the development goals, targets and tasks of 2025 and the coming time.

Speaking at the conference, Deputy State Auditor General Ha Thi My Dung emphasized that the audit program was implemented appropriately and scientifically, without affecting other work of the province in the context that Nghe An, along with the whole country, is carrying out a revolution in restructuring and streamlining the organizational apparatus.

Emphasizing the new points of the 2025 audit program, the Deputy State Auditor General said that through the audit results, it pointed out the shortcomings in documents, policies, and existing problems up to now.

Thereby, overall recommendations are made to the Party and State leaders so that in the coming time, the whole country can implement them in the spirit of minimizing shortcomings and obstacles in mechanisms and policies. In addition, through the audit results, waste in the use of financial budget and public assets is pointed out.

Deputy State Auditor General Ha Thi My Dung requested the Provincial People's Committee to direct the audited units to closely follow the content of the audit decision to provide timely and accurate information and documents. The Audit Delegation directed the Audit Teams to perform their tasks in accordance with regulations.