The Seminar on “Government Auditing within EU Member-States”, organised by the Financial Services Bureau will commence, Monday, 19th September, at 6:150 p.m., in the Auditorium of the “Finanças” Building located on Avenida da Praia Grande, n.º 575-585, basement.

Integrated in the 2nd EU-Macao Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field, this seminar will feature as its keynote speaker Professor Rowan Harrison Jones, Professor of Public Sector Accounting, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK and co-founder of Comparative International Governmental Accounting Research Network.

This seminar will be conducted in English; during the five daily sessions, which will take place between 6:15 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. until 23rd September, the following topics will be discussed:

1. Introduction to financial and regularity audits and performance audits;

2. Internal control, materiality and budget auditing;

3. Audit: UK perspectives;

4. Audit: other European countries perspectives;

5. Audit: critical approaches.

This event aims at providing a comprehensive overview of the public audit systems in various EU member states, so as to further enhance knowledge in this area.

The 2nd EU-Macao Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field, extending until December 2012, which embodies this seminar, has the “Consolidation of the Macao Legal System” as its main objective.

The execution of the Co-operation Programme is coordinated by the Law Reform and International Law Bureau, with the participation of several other MSAR’s entities and public departments, namely, the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, the Legal Affairs Bureau, the Economic Services, the Financial Services Bureau and the Institute of European Studies of Macau.