I am pleased to welcome you to the National Audit Office’s website as viewers and partners, and we look forward to this site being a bridge of communication between you and the NAO. The safeguarding of public funds and, in particular, the verification of the soundness and legality of spending them in their proper aspects represent the NAO’s core audit work and responsibilities. We feel the increased weight of this responsibility with the special attention that HM King Hamad Bin Isa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain, HRH Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, the Prime Minister and his esteemed Government, and HRH Prince Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Bahrain Defence Force and First Deputy Prime Minister give to the NAO’s Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Bahrain Defence Force and First Deputy Prime Minister give to the NAO’s efforts and role in safeguarding public funds and developmental accomplishments in the past decades. The NAO considers its role of auditing the public funds and verifying the soundness of using such funds to be much more than merely disclosing financial and administrative violations and apprehending violators. One of the NAO’s fundamental duties that it seeks to fulfil is that of assisting entities subject to its audit in managing Continue Reading... laws and rules organizing their works, as well as developing the performance of such entities Continue Reading...