Press Releases Archive, 2018
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28 December 2018.
In the end of December 2018, Members of the Council of the State Audit Institution (SAI) adopted three strategic documents, significant for future work and development of SAI.
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27 December 2018.
In the process of planning funds for functioning of anti-hail protection, distribution of anti-hail rockets and maintenance of launch pads, the Republic Hydrometeorological Service (RHMZ), does not ensure sufficient protection of agricultural products and producers, which is the key message of the performance audit report titled "Hail Protection System in the Republic of Serbia".
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07 December 2018.
Insufficiently reliable accounting records, possibility to delete entered data, possibility to change orders without cancellation, unreliable accounting softwares are some of the findings emphasized by the state auditors when conducting financial statements auditing, said Dr. Duško Pejović, President and Auditor General of the State Audit Institution (SAI).
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06 December 2018.
President and Auditor General of the State Audit Institution (SAI), Dr. Duško Pejović, at the session of the Committee for Finance, Republic Budget and Control of Public Funds' Spending of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, presented the proposed Decision of SAI Financial Plan for 2018 along with projections for 2019 and 2020, and proposed Financial Plan of SAI for 2019 with projections for 2020 and 2021.
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05 December 2018.
President of the State Audit Institution (SAI) and Auditor General, Dr. Duško Pejović, presented the role of SAI in supervision over public finances at the Forum "Open on Corruption: Towards more Transparent and Accountable Public Finances", held in the Faculty of Economics in Subotica.
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23 November 2018.
State Audit Institution (SAI) will have better technical capabilities for systemic monitoring of implementation of recommendations, which will be realized within the development of customized software for Audit Management System (AMS), procurement of which is planned in 2019, while the initial application in 2020, said SAI President and Auditor-General, Dr. Duško Pejović.
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16 November 2018.
State Audit institution (SAI) has published 1000 audit reports so far, whereby almost half of them relate to local governments, and not a single one has received positive opinion, said Dr. Duško Pejović, SAI President and Auditor General.
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07 November 2018.
President of the State Audit Institution (SAI) and Auditor General, Dr. Duško Pejović, and Senior Advisor for European Integration, Mr. Tomislav Jovanović, participated in the Subcommittee meeting for economic and financial issues and statistics for implementation of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) between the EU and Serbia, held in Brussels today.
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07 November 2018.
Senior Advisers in the Sector for Performance Audit, Goran Čabarkapa and Dragojle Polić, held lectures on performance audit procedure to internal auditors in the Republic of Serbia, during two one-day workshops.
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05 November 2018.
Today and tomorrow, the State Audit institution will be the host to the European colleagues from the EUROSAI (European Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions) Task Force on Municipality Audit, who will attend the 2nd annual meeting of the Task Force and the Seminar on "Local Government Finance: Future Challenges".
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24 October 2018.
President of the State Audit Institution and Auditor-General, Dr. Duško Pejović, and Head of the Office of the President, Ms. Iva Vasilić Miljić, participated in the 9th meeting of the Task Force for Audit & Ethics of the European Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (EUROSAI), held in Lisbon on 22nd and 23rd October 2018.
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19 October 2018.
State Audit Institution presented its 1000th audit report today. This jubilee report pertains to consolidated financial statement and compliance audit report of the City of Užice for 2017.
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19 October 2018.
Delegation of the State Audit Institution (SAI), comprising Certified State Auditor Danimir Vulinović, State Auditor Marko Strugarević and Independent Advisor in Auditing Milena Vasiljković, participated in the International Seminar titled "Audit of companies owned by local authorities", which took place on 18th October in Székesfehérvár, Hungary.
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18 October 2018.
Delegation of the State Audit Institution, comprising State Auditors, Ms. Aleksandra Marinković Naumovski and Ms. Gordana Uzelac, and Audit Advisor Ms. Milena Leković, participated in the Seminar of European Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (EUROSAI) on audit methodology, held in Warsaw on 16th and 17th October.
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18 October 2018.
President and Auditor General, Dr. Duško Pejović, delivered today introductory speech at the second regional conference of internal auditors in Novi Sad. Topic of this year's conference is: "Challenges of Internal Audit, Leadership, Culture and Independence of Internal Audit". Goal of the conference is to point to challenges related to these issues.
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17 October 2018.
Ekspert sa dugogodišnjim iskustvom u Nacionalnoj kancelariji za reviziju Velike Britanije, Dejvid Golsvordi, održao je od 15. do 17. oktobra 2018. godine, za zaposlene u Državnoj revizorskoj instituciji, radionicu posvećenu efektima revizije svrsishodnosti i metodologiji za njihovo praćenje i ocenu.
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15 October 2018.
The President of the State Audit Institution, Dr. Duško Pejović, attended the Contact Committee Meeting of the Heads of the Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) of the European Union and the European Court of Auditors, which took place in Dubrovnik, on 11th and 12th October 2018. State Audit Office of Croatia hosted the meeting.
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12 October 2018.
Predsednik Državne revizorske institucije dr Duško Pejović uručio je sertifikate zaposlenima u DRI, koji su pohađali obuku za naprednu metodologiju revizije svrsishodnosti poslovanja.
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12 October 2018.
Representative of the State Audit Institution, Mr. Zoran Stepanović, Senior Advisor in the Sector for Audit of Mandatory Social Insurance Organizations, participated in workshop on collaboration of internal and external auditors, organized by the Center for Excellence in Finance in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 9-11 October 2018.
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10 October 2018.
State Audit institution has published today the first audit reports regarding financial statement and compliance audit from the 2018 Audit Program.
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09 October 2018.
Principi strateškog planiranja, INTOSAI standardi za planiranje revizije, mapiranje procesa planiranja programa revizije svrsishodnosti poslovanja, procena okruženja, kao i ulazni podaci za planiranje, bile su teme prvog dela obuke koja je održana 27. i 28. septembra 2018. godine, a na kojoj su učestvovali zaposleni u Državnoj revizorskoj instituciji. Pored navednih tema, razmatrano je i integrisano planiranje revizija finansijskih izveštaja, revizija pravilnosti i revizija svrsishodnosti poslovanja.
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01 October 2018.
Delegation of the State Audit Institution of the Republic of Serbia, comprising Members of the Council, Ms. Ljiljana Dimitrijević and Ms. Marijana Simović, Supreme State Auditor in the Sector for Audit of the Local Authorities' Budgets, Ms. Stojanka Milovanović and Senior Advisor, Mr. Željko Motić, participated in the second workshop on financial statements auditing, organized in Bečići, Montenegro, from 25th to 28th September 2018.
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01 October 2018.
Jelena Damjanovic, Junior Advisor in the State Audit Institution of the Republic of Serbia, started Internship Program in the European Court of Auditors on October. Our young colleague will be staying in Luxembourg until 28th February 2019, together with fellow colleagues from Supreme Audit Institutions from Albania and Macedonia.
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25 September 2018.
U okviru Projekta „Inicijativa za odgovornu vlast“ koji Državna revizorska institucija sprovodi u saradnji sa USAID-om, zaposleni Institucije prisustvovali su naprednoj obuci oreviziji svrsishodnosti poslovanja održanoj 25. septembra 2018. godine.
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21 September 2018.
Supreme State Auditor in the Sector for Audit of the Local Authorities' Budgets, Ms. Stojanka Milovanović, and Supreme State Auditor in the Sector for Audit Methodology and Quality Control, Mr. Ivica Gavrilovic, participated as presenters in the event on audit quality control, held in Jahorina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 20th September 2018. The educational training was primarily designed for managers in charge of financial audit and quality control in financial audit area in the audit institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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21 September 2018.
Representatives of the State Audit Institution Željko Motić, Senior Advisor in Auditing in the Sector for Audit of Local Authorities’ Budgets, and Radovan Ratković, Independent Advisor in Auditing in the Sector for Audit of Mandatory Social Insurance Organizations, participated in three-day training in IT audit, organized by the Center for Excellence in Finance (CEF) from 18th to 20th October 2018 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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18 September 2018.
"City of Leskovac is an example of how this city removed all detected irregularities in the response to the audit report after completed audit of final statement of accounts of the Budget and compliance audit for 2015. In that sense, it is an example for other local government units", said Dr. Duško Pejović, President of the State Audit Institution, while presenting the audit report of consolidated financial statements of the Budget and compliance audit of the City of Leskovac for 2015, and audit of the response to the audit report for 2017.
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06 September 2018.
Representatives of the State Audit Institution (SAI), headed by the President, Dr. Duško Pejović, held a Lecture in Pozarevac regarding past experiences of the SAI in the financial statements audit in local government units for 180 participants from 26 cities and municipalities.
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03 September 2018.
Although Supreme Audit Institutions (SAI) need to be physically, financially, politically and practically independent of the executive branch of government, insisting on independence does not include absence of cooperation when there are mutual goals and when SAI work may have larger impact.
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31 August 2018.
President of the State Audit Institution, Dr. Duško Pejović, and Jacquelyn Williams-Bridgers, Chief of Party of the USAID Project "Government Accountability Initiative", handed over the certificates on successfully completed basic training in performance auditing to employees of the State Audit Institution who participated in the two-week training dedicated to this topic.
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06 August 2018.
Council of the State Audit Institution appointed today Stojanka Milovanović Supreme State Auditor in the Sector for Audit of Local Authorities’ Budgets. By taking oath in front of the Council members, Ms. Stojanka Milovanović assumed the position of the Supreme State Auditor.
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19 July 2018.
Weaknesses in functioning of internal control system, failure to establish internal audit function, irregularities regarding public procurements, overpaid salaries compared to the prescribed levels, are some of the most common irregularities detected in auditees, Dr Duško Pejović said, Auditor General and President of the State Audit Institution.
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25 April 2018.
Newly-elected Members of the Council of the State Audit Institution, who will exercise their term in office from 2018 until 2023, took an oath today in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.
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25 April 2018.
Outgoing President and Auditor-General of the State Audit Institution, Mr. Radoslav Sretenovic, solemnly handed over his duty, in the presence of the previous and newly-elected Members of the Council, to newly-elected President and Auditor-General, Dr. Duško Pejović.
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03 April 2018.
State Audit Institution will organize a press conference dedicated to presentation of the 2017 Activity Report of the Institution. Conference will take place on Thursday, 5th April 2018 at 12 O’clock in Press Center of the Journalists’ Association of Serbia, 6/3 Knez Mihailova Street.
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05 February 2018.
European Court of Auditor (ECA) and the Swedish National Audit Office (SNAO) have successfully supported the Second Regional Parallel Performance Audit Project on public procurements. Parallel Performance Audit Project was implemented within the cooperation between the State Audit Institution of Serbia and Supreme Audit Institutions (SAI) of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo*[1] and Macedonia.
[1] *This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence
