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Considerable inefficiencies in processing citizenship cases
The Swedish Migration Agency’s processing of citizenship applications is lacking in effectiveness, according to the Swedish National Audit Office’s audit. Thousands of cases lie dormant, processing is partly arbitrary and the Swedish Migration Agency...
Sluggish expansion of civil defence
The expansion of civil defence has been slow, according to the Swedish National Audit Office’s audit. The shortcomings are due to issues such as ambiguities in the Government’s management, the slow progress of responsible government agencies and shor...
Insufficient prior knowledge leads to high drop-out numbers from higher education
Dropping out from higher education programmes in shortage occupations often stems from a lack of prior knowledge and misaligned expectations (misguided choices). The Swedish National Audit Office recommends extending careers advisory services and introducing requirements for students who drop out to inform their higher education institution.
We examine the effectiveness and efficiency of central government
Performance audits help the Riksdag to make informed political decisions. In this respect, auditing is about bringing about improvement. However, it is important to note that, at the Swedish National Audit Office, we do not engage in developing society or accountability. Our task is to produce factual material. Robin Travis, Deputy Head of The Performance Audit Department, tells us more about performance audit.
What is performance auditing?Our auditing helps establish trust in government agencies
Every year, we audit government agencies’ annual reports, since they are important for ensuring that the agencies are making correct and effective use of their resources in accordance with decisions by the Swedish Government and Riksdag.
What is financial auditing?
Multifaceted international engagement
The Swedish National Audit Office is involved in extensive international activities, in which we collaborate on the development of standards and help other audit institutions build their operations.
International engagementAccess to facts has never been more important
Our central government agencies deal with important functions in society, on which we all depend, and which must stand up to scrutiny. It is a matter of democratic transparency. And access to facts.
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