Para 3.7.10 — MSO (Audit)
Original Rule Text
3.7.10 The Audit Officer of the Central Audit Support (Integrated Audit Unit) Section should review contract agreements critically and communicate its results to the departments concerned. Points noticed in the course of the review, which have to be borne in mind while conducting local audit, should be entered in the Register of Important Points for Local Audit and communicated to the local audit parties as and when the local audit of the concerned offices is taken up.
# Issues for audit scrutiny
What This Means
The Audit Officer of the Central Audit Support (Integrated Audit Unit) Section must critically review contract agreements and communicate findings to the concerned departments. Any points that need to be examined further during local audit should be entered in the Register of Important Points for Local Audit and shared with local audit parties when they take up the inspection of the relevant offices.
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Key Points
- 1Central Audit Support (IAU) Section critically reviews contract agreements
- 2Findings are communicated to concerned departments
- 3Points needing local audit follow-up are entered in the Register of Important Points for Local Audit
- 4Local audit parties are informed of these points when the relevant office's audit is taken up
- 5This ensures continuity between central and local audit observations
Practical Example
During central audit review of a large supply contract, the IAU Section noticed that the delivery schedule had been extended multiple times despite an urgency premium being paid. This point was entered in the Register of Important Points for Local Audit. When the local audit party inspected the procuring office three months later, they specifically examined the delivery records and found that the urgency was artificial — the supplies were never needed urgently, resulting in an avoidable expenditure of Rs 12 lakh in urgency premium.
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