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The meeting was held on March 30, 2021 via videoconference. Over the past year the group has done significant work: it has expanded membership, finalized its main documents, carried out a number of important researches and initiated new interesting projects. WGSDG KSDI members during the meeting shared their results in auditing SDGs.

The Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation and the State Audit Office of Hungary held series of seminars and discussed the most crucial issues of auditing corruption and strategic audit.

The Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation and the Swedish National Audit Office held the seminar “Auditing innovations”.

“Regular ACRF monitorings of SAIs’ activities during the COVID-19 show the significant increase in digitalization around the world. The pandemic has forced the implementation of new technologies and mechanisms in our work. SAIs have to switch to working online: remote access to databases, online services for auditing and knowledge exchange in this sphere”, – stated Timur Makhmutov, Director of Department for International and Regional Cooperation, in his welcome address at the seminar on digitalization held by the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation and the National Audit Office of the People’s Republic of China.

Remote audits, monitoring reschedule, staff working from home – the new normal for SAIs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chairs of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation Aleksei Kudrin and the French Cour des comptes Pierre Moscovici exchanged their views on the further development of auditing agenda and the world economy.