Perform well the tasks of inspection, supervision, management and use of public finance and assets.

(Baonghean) - On January 4, 2002, the State Audit Office of the North Central region (now the State Audit Office of Region II) was established by the Prime Minister under Decision No. 01/QD-TTg, headquartered in Vinh city, Nghe An province; to perform the task of auditing the budget for the provinces as assigned by the State Auditor General.

With the timely attention and direction of the Executive Committee, Party Committee and leaders of the State Audit Office; the coordination of functional advisory departments, public service units, the State Audit Office; the sharing of specialized and regional State Audit offices; the help and support of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee and Finance sector of the provinces in the area; the efforts of cadres, civil servants and employees; the State Audit Office of Region II has gradually matured in all aspects of work, increasingly performing the assigned functions and tasks, actively contributing to the development process and enhancing the legal status of the State Audit agency in the organizational system of the State of Vietnam.

State Audit officers of Region II conduct audits at project sites.

State Audit Office Region II undertakes the audit of 10 provinces including Thai Binh, Nam Dinh, Ha Nam, Ninh Binh and 6 provinces in the North Central region from Thanh Hoa to Thua Thien Hue (currently, according to the assignment of the State Auditor General, the area of ​​operation is in 5 provinces: Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien Hue). With a large area, complex terrain, difficult travel, limited budget revenue of localities, and a small number of auditors, but with the efforts of generations of leaders, auditors and the coordination of specialized auditors and advisory units, State Audit Office Region II has completed the assigned annual audit tasks.

The organization, staff and auditors have also been gradually built and developed. Currently, the unit has 6 affiliated departments including: Office, General Department, 3 Budget Audit Departments and 1 Project Investment Audit Department with a total of 100 civil servants and employees, of which civil servants account for 87% and employees account for 13%.

Talks between the delegation of the President of the State Audit of Laos and the leaders of the State Audit of Vietnam and the State Audit of Region II in August 2015.

The leadership apparatus at the department and division levels has 30 comrades, of which 5 are at the department level and 24 are at the division level. In terms of professional qualifications, there are 30 masters, 58 university graduates, many of whom have 2 university degrees. The level of political theory has also been constantly improved, to date there is 1 civil servant with a bachelor's degree in politics; 10 civil servants have advanced political theory qualifications and are studying for advanced degrees. In addition to performing well the annual political tasks assigned by the State Auditor General, the framework staff for newly established areas and affiliated units in the industry has also been strengthened.

With many synchronous solutions such as: Assigning specialized auditors to monitor, regularly sending instructions, urging units to implement and establishing inspection teams... the results of implementing annual audit recommendations always reach a rate of over 80%. The audit results have provided objective and honest information to state management agencies, contributing to improving transparency in the management of state budget, money and assets.

To achieve the above results, State Audit Region II has implemented the following solutions well: Regularly reviewing and evaluating the current status of audit activities, analyzing the causes of limitations and shortcomings, and proposing solutions to overcome them in determining objectives, contents, selecting audited units, applying audit methods to collect sufficient evidence as a basis for giving opinions on the correctness, honesty, and legality of audit reports; attention has been paid to the work of developing audit plans; collecting sufficient information to correctly and fully determine the objectives, focus, and content of audits, and arranging appropriate personnel to conduct audits.

For the audits of the State budget settlement reports, the provinces have focused on studying the audits at the general agencies, the executive instructions, and the policy mechanisms of the localities; auditing the management and use of budget funds according to the functions and tasks of the local departments and branches. For the field of auditing state-owned enterprises, the focus has been on improving the quality of auditing work, focusing on complex and important contents such as: Auditing the implementation of tax obligations to the State, auditing the consolidated financial statements of parent companies - subsidiaries, auditing the investment activities of enterprises, and assessing the financial status of enterprises.

In the field of investment audit, the State Audit Office has conducted audits of projects with high efficiency; regularly disseminated to each auditor the Regulations on organization and operation of the State Audit Team, the Code of Conduct for State Auditors, and the instructions of the State Auditor General on strengthening the management of audit activities.

State Audit Office Region II hands over gratitude houses to policy beneficiaries.

Strengthening the control of audit quality at all levels, thus promptly overcoming shortcomings in collecting audit evidence, establishing audit records, determining audit results; the quality of audit reports of the unit in the past year was improved, minimizing errors; implementing the consolidation and strengthening of human resources for the General Department to improve the quality of consulting for leaders on professional work, improving the quality of appraisal of plans, audit reports, inspection, and audit quality review; the coordination relationship with the Provincial Party Committee, People's Committee, and People's Council of localities was closely organized by the unit leaders and audit teams throughout the audit implementation process, helping the audit team to manage personnel well and coordinate in directing the implementation of the Decision of the State Auditor General.

The audit results recorded over 15 years of construction and development of the State Audit Office of Region II do not stop at the figures of increased revenue and savings for the State budget, but more importantly, help audited units improve their financial and budgetary management, put financial and accounting management into order, contributing to enhancing transparency and accountability in financial and budgetary management. Help People's Councils at all levels have reliable information to supervise financial and budgetary management in localities, help management agencies and state-owned enterprises adjust and promptly correct errors in management work. The State Audit Office of Region II has recommended adjusting many documents on state budget revenue and expenditure issued by management agencies and localities that are not in accordance with the laws and legal documents of the State.

Inheriting and promoting tradition, contributing to the successful implementation of the development strategy of the State Audit sector until 2020, State Audit Region II identifies the main orientations and solutions to be implemented in the coming time as follows:

Continue to promote measures to build a clean and strong team of civil servants and state auditors to meet the requirements of tasks in the new situation. Regularly pay attention to political, ideological, ethical and responsible education for civil servants, auditors and workers, considering this a fundamental and key task, a decisive factor for the success of the State Audit Office of Region II in particular and the State Audit Office in general. Thoroughly and responsibly implement the Resolutions of the Executive Committee, the Party Committee of the State Audit Office, the Decisions and Directives of the State Auditor General.

Closely follow the annual audit objectives of the State Audit to direct the audit teams to implement. Ensure that the audits fully implement the objectives and audit contents, improve the audit quality. Strengthen the discipline and administrative discipline of officials and civil servants in performing public duties, especially in auditing activities.

Implement grassroots democracy regulations, maintain the principles of centralization and democracy in all activities of the unit, ensure the principles of publicity and transparency according to regulations. Continue to improve the organizational structure, functions and tasks of specialized departments...

Strengthening cooperation and coordination with localities and units in the area. Regularly exchanging and providing information related to auditing activities and audit information to serve local management, direction and supervision. Timely handling of problems arising during the auditing process at the locality and audited unit.

Building strong and effective Party, Trade Union, Youth Union and Veterans organizations, promoting solidarity and unity in performing assigned political tasks.

Build a database system of information on the economic, financial and budgetary situation of units in the area, update audit results to serve the exploitation and processing of information.

Inheriting the achievements and valuable experiences of previous generations, the collective of cadres, civil servants and auditors of State Audit Region II always uphold the spirit of solidarity, creativity and determination to strive to excellently complete assigned tasks, worthy of the trust of the Party, State, National Assembly and local Party Committees and authorities in the area, firmly maintaining the position of a strong unit of the State Audit.

MSc. NGUYEN HONG THAI -

Senior Auditor, Chief Auditor of State Audit Office Region II