The National Audit Office (NAO), in cooperation with the Secretariat General of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, organized a virtual training course on "Auditing Public Debt" which was attended by participants from various audit offices from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
The three-day course was presented by Ahmed Buti, audit manager at the Regularity Audit Directorate at the NAO of the Kingdom of Bahrain.
He discussed the definition of public debt, the role of the law in defining its components, the strategic importance of public debt at country level, as well as the procedures for financial, performance and compliance audit of public debt in accordance with the standards of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) and best practices in this field.
