The Institute of Internal Auditors Qatar in association with The Scientific Accounting Association (SAA) hosted Fifth National Conference on Internal Auditing at The Grand Hyatt hotel recently. The conference with the theme “Auditing Matters” was attended by large number of dignitaries and over 400 participants including from Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
H E Abdulla bin Hamad Al Attiyah, Chairman of the Abdulla bin Hamad Al Attiyah Foundation for Energy and Sustainable Development and former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Industry, opened the conference. “One of the decisions when I was appointed as minister in 1992 was to establish the Internal Audit department. Internal audit plays pivotal role to safeguard pubic assets,” he said
Sheikh Bandar bin Mohamed bin Saud Al Thani, President of the Audit Bureau Qatar, delivered a message of support to the IIA Qatar.
“Qatar is providing the necessary support for internal auditors work in the frame of transparency policies” the Global Chairman of the Board of the IIA Anton van Wyk said.
The three day event had 32 International speakers addressing the delegates in 15 sessions and 6 workshops on topics relevant to the theme of the conference, “Auditing matters”, with reference to COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations) framework on internal Control.
“The IIA Qatar spares no effort in developing Qatari internal auditors” said Hassan Al Mulla, IIA Qatar President. A Qatari national Ammar Abdulla Sakini who recently qualified coveted Certified Internal Auditor examination was presented a conference plaque.
Chris Adonis, Conference Chairman, planned and executed the event with the support of a conference team. Fahad Hussein Al Marri, Senior Vice President, was the master of ceremonies and Adel Al Hashemi, Vice President, recognised the sponsors and dignitaries.
“There are enormous expectations emerging from senior management of the companies and that require Auditors to stay abreast of changes and developments in the profession to ensure that their advice and recommendations are relevant and practical,” said Sundaresan Rajeswar conference coordinator.
The sponsors were Qatar National Bank, Qatar Rail and Price Waterhouse Coopers as platinum, Deloitte, Protiviti, KPMG, Moore Stephens, BDO, Teammate as Gold, Thomson Reuters, Al Najar, Mazars, PRC, Bahwan Cybertek and Al Sayed Accounting as Bronze. Qatar University was Academic Partner and Audit Bureau Qatar was Strategic Partner
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