Core Skills
Develop the foundational professional knowledge, behaviours and skills required to work effectively within a Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) environment.
Ethics (minimum of 3 hours every three years required)
PASAI – CA ANZ Ethics Workshop
Understand obligations to always act with integrity, behave professionally/ethically and have personal accountability
- PASAI Ethics Workshop
- PASAI Ethics Webinar
- CA ANZ Micro-course on Ethics
- IDI Professional Education for SAI Auditors (PESA) cross-cutting paper on demonstrating professional behaviour in a SAI context
Understand the role of SAIs within a public financial management system
- PESA cross-cutting paper on the value and benefits of SAIs
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Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy Certificate in Performance Audit Fundamentals:
Module 1: Public sector governance for auditors -
Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy free online micro module:
Mandates of Supreme Audit Institutions
Understand the fundamentals of what public sector auditing is, what it involves and auditing standards
- PASAI Online Fundamentals of Public Sector Auditing Course
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Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy Certificate in Performance Audit Fundamentals:
Module 2: Introduction to public sector auditing -
Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy free online micro module:
Public Sector External Audit – the Fundamentals
Communication skills to effectively work with SAI colleagues and staff in audited entities
- PASAI Online Interpersonal Communication Course
- PASAI Online Fundamentals of Report Writing Course
IT and time management skills to effectively and efficiently complete work
- PASAI potentially partners with a provider of Microsoft training programmes to negotiate access to training for PASAI members at a competitive rate based on collective demand across PASAI members
- PASAI develops a Fundamentals of Time Management online course or webinar

