Audit oversight

The Montenegro Accounting and Auditing Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (A&A ROSC report), conducted by the World Bank team, was publicly disseminated on May 30, 2025, during the 10th International Symposium of Accountants and Auditors of Montenegro, held in Ulcinj.

The knowledge sharing event on "Good Practices in Audit Oversight and Enforcement: Insights from the Polish Agency for Audit Oversight" took place on October 3-4, 2023, in Warsaw. This event, organized by the World Bank Centre for Financial Reporting Reform, was part of the regional project The Road to Europe Program of Accounting Reform and Institutional Strengthening for Small and Medium Enterprises (REPARIS for SMEs).

On July 4^th, key stakeholders met in Pristina to discuss how to improve the approximation to the EU acquis in the field of accounting and auditing and strengthen the functionality of the public oversight system in Kosovo.

As part of the Strengthening Quality of Auditing and Reporting Project (SQARP) for the Republic of Albania the Albanian Public Oversight Board benefited from an exchange of experience with the Austrian Audit Oversight Authority. A two-day workshop was delivered on March 23-24, 2023, in Tirana, Albania.

Serbian Finance Minister and other government and EU representatives discuss reform progress and share experiences

• Serbian Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic joined senior representatives from the World Bank Centre for Financial Reporting Reform (CFRR) program beneficiary countries, CFRR development partners including the European Commission, and the Governments of Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg, as well as World Bank/CFRR representatives in Brussels on 29 March 2017.
• The meeting was convened to discuss financial reporting reform progress in countries in the West

Three webinars were held between 8 June and 10 June 2021 under STAREP regional program and these were attended by about 40 participants each day.

The overall aim of the experience exchange webinars was to learn from Slovenian experience related to the establishment of an independent public oversight function, entry requirements and registration of auditors and audit firms; monitoring of continuing professional development; quality assurance inspections and enforcement procedures, as well as cooperation with foreign audit regulators.

A roundtable involving key stakeholders was organized by the World Bank and the Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan under Joint Economic Research Program (JERP) on March 30, 2021. The event was attended by about 45 participants.

The key objective of the event was to discuss the content of the provisions of the new model of audit oversight function in Kazakhstan.

Four series of webinars were delivered between 09 February and 12 February 2021 and these were attended by about 80 participants each day.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN’s) Audit Regulatory Group (AARG) has partnered with the World Bank to build on and support existing efforts to share knowledge and promote good practices of audit oversight within the countries that make up the ASEAN Community. This collaborative workshop in Bangkok continued the establishment of the Audit Oversight Community of Practice for the prospective AARG members (AOCoP) i.e. the Philippines, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.

A two-day workshop in Vienna on 26 and 27 April, 2018 convened together participants from each of the countries of two regional CFRR projects: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine as part of the Strengthening Auditing and Reporting in the Countries of the Eastern Partnership (STAREP) and Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia as part of the Road to Europe: Program of Accounting Reform and Institutional Strengthening (EU-REPARIS).