Separation of Audit and Accounts

Separation of Audit and Accounts

Office of the Accountant General, NWFP, till 30^th June, 1989 was responsible for the local audit of accounts of the Provincial Govt departments and its autonomous bodies and corporations and performance of audit of projects etc. The audit reports too thereon were being prepared by this office. The function of local audit of accounts was however withdrawn from it and assigned to newly established office of the Director General, Audit NWFP in July 1989.

All the accounting transactions both for the Federal as well as Provincial Govts were under the administrative and functional control of the Auditor General of Pakistan. The separation of Audit & Accounts departments were promulgated vide Auditor General's ordinance  2001 and Controller Generals Ordinance 2001, since then the Accounts Departments were independently kept under the newly created office of the Controller General of Accounts.