Ghana to launch online system for tracking implementation of audit recommendations — MyJoyOnline
Ghana’s Audit Service plans to launch an online system in October 2026 to monitor the implementation of recommendations following audits. Auditor-General Pamela Graham announced this at the presentation of the audit for the 2026 financial year in Accra on September 29, MyJoyOnline reports.
The system, which the Audit Service developed in-house, will show implemented and unimplemented recommendations, as well as the reasons for delays. It will also display amounts subject to recovery, information on recovery measures and funds actually recovered. Corrective, administrative or disciplinary measures will be recorded separately.
According to Graham, the system will also help identify weaknesses in public institutions that continue to pose risks to public funds.
Unrecovered amounts
Chair of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee Abena Osei-Asare said that financial surcharges amounting to 280.5 million Ghanaian cedis, imposed as a result of audits, remain unpaid. According to her, as of February 2026, about 57.2 million cedis had been received through the Auditor-General’s accounts for recovering funds since 2022.
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She also reported that the 2025 reports on ministries, departments and agencies recorded financial irregularities of about 5.2 billion cedis. Of this amount, 4.8 billion cedis, she said, concerned tax irregularities.
New approaches to auditing
Pamela Graham said that the service had recovered 17.6 billion cedis and prevented improper payments of about 11.7 billion cedis. She announced plans to conduct interim audits at selected institutions in order to identify problems earlier and reduce the accumulation of adjustments from previous years.
The Audit Service is also expected to expand the use of data analytics and forensic tools and apply artificial intelligence with appropriate oversight. Where data permit, auditors plan to move from reviewing limited samples to analysing the entire data population.
Graham reminded institutions of the six-month deadline for submitting reports to Parliament, stipulated by Article 187(5) of Ghana’s 1992 Constitution. She also said she would use constitutional powers to declare expenditures unlawful and impose financial surcharges in the event of legal violations.
