Johannesburg-For the second year running, the Southern African Institute of Government Auditors (SAIGA) will host its annual conference from Wednesday the 14th to Thursday 15th September 2022 at the Protea Fire & Ice Marriot hotel in Menlyn, Pretoria.
The conference, which is sponsored by the South African Institute of Professional Accountants (SAIPA), under the theme “Step up to the Mark”, will host several key speakers who will deliver keynote addresses, master classes, presentations as well as take part in panel discussions on matters concerning accounting and
auditing in the public sector.
The SAIGA Chief Executive Officer, Russel Morena, says that this year’s theme is a step up to the previous conference theme “Citizens Come First”, which aimed to strengthen capacity building in the public sector and assist in providing clean governance and quality service delivery that leads to happy citizens.
“This year, our call to action to the auditing and accounting professionals is to up their standard. It is also a call to the professionals and professional organisations in the auditing and accounting field to act and carry their responsibilities and duties with integrity, objectivity, professionalism and due care, and confidentiality.” Morena says the main objective of the conference is to provide a platform for accounting and auditing professionals to engage on various topics which are impacting the industry. He explains: “Through this year’s conference we call on the auditing and accounting leadership to ensure ‘sustainable’ auditing. We have already noted some signs of improvement in some areas and strongly urge auditing professionals to ensure progressive and sustainable improvements.
Morena adds that the event will bring together professionals not only in South Africa but outside the borders with the sole purpose of contributing to solutions to
capacity challenges and efficiencies within the public sector. “The annual conference is part of SAIGA’s vision 2023 strategy with a focus to strengthen capacity building in the public sector and expanding the Institute’s footprint in the rest of the African continent and globally,” Morena concludes.
Shahied Daniels, Chief Executive Officer of the South African Institute of Professional Accountants said: “Accountancy professionals underscore the work done by auditors, thus it is important for SAIPA to support this initiative by SAIGA. This year’s conference theme also resonates with our own focus of enabling the accountancy profession so that it can bolster the economy.”
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