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  Auditors told to help improve companies management   (Xinhua)  Updated: 2006-01-13 16:43  
 
 China's Auditor-General Li Jinhua urged internal auditing bodies Thursday to 
conduct more management audits in enterprises to improve their financial and 
management performance. 
 The Auditor-General of National Audit Office said on Thursday that income and 
expenses audits that only aim at correcting errors and cheat could not meet the 
need of economic development. 
 Internal audits should play a more important role in improving economic 
growth and should provide consultation to decision makers,said Li in a council 
meeting held by China Institute of Internal Audit (CIIA) in Beijing on Thursday. 
 Li encouraged internal auditing bodies to take an active part in supervising 
and evaluating enterprise's operating activities, risk management and internal 
control, giving advisory opinions and solutions to decision makers. 
 The Auditor-General said authenticity and legitimacy are mainly found in 
China's economic problems. Income and expenses audits are still an effective way 
to improve financial performance by enforcing authentic and legitimate 
orientation, he said. 
 Li said cost-effectiveness audit and management audit are key, and that all 
audits should not be only a checking system but also a controlling system which 
could make irreplaceable contributions to enterprises. 
 The overall objective in the next five years for Chinese internal auditing 
bodies established by the CIIA is to integrate income and expenses audits with 
internal control and risk management audit. 
 The CIIA was founded in 1987. There are estimated 82,000 internal auditing 
bodies with more than 200,000 internal auditors in China.  
  
  
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