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Swedish National Audit Office

Swedish administrative authority

Summary

Swedish administrative authority

Field	Value
name	Swedish National Audit Office
native_name	Riksrevisionen
logo	Riksrevisionen Logo.svg
formed
preceding1	Statskontoret (1680–1920)
preceding2	Riksdagens revisorer (1867–2003)
preceding3	Riksräkenskapsverket (1920–1963)
preceding4	Riksrevisionsverket (1963–2003)
superseding2
headquarters	Sweden Stockholm
coordinates
minister2_pfo
deputyminister2_pfo
chief2_position
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website

The Swedish National Audit Office () is the agency responsible for oversight of the state finances through financial and performance audits of state agencies, state-owned companies and the Government of Sweden. It serves directly under the Riksdag and is therefore independent of the Cabinet. All state agencies are required to submit copies of their annual accounts and reports to this office for review.

The mission of the Swedish National Audit Office is to examine the government's activities in order to contribute to the effective management of state administration. The agency is led by one Auditor General (riksrevisor) who is appointed for a seven-year term without the possibility of re-appointment. The Auditor General decide independently on aspects of the state government to be audited, how to do its investigations. The independence of the office and the Auditor General is specified in Chapter 13 of the Regeringsformen, which is part of the Constitution of Sweden. The current Auditor General for the period 2017–2024 is Helena Lindberg.

History

Auditing responsibilities in regards to the finances of the Swedish Government first began in 1530 when King Gustav Vasa set up the Räntekammaren, soon to become the Kammarkollegiet under control of the Lord High Treasurer of Sweden. Under King John III, the annual Rikshufvudboken was published which contained a breakdown of all national finances of Sweden within that year. In 1680, King Charles XI moved all governmental auditing responsibilities from the Kammarkollegiet to a new government agency called the , which lasted until 1920 when the auditing portion of the Swedish Agency for Administrative Development was transferred to a new agency called Riksräkenskapsverket, under the control of the Ministry of Finance. In 1963, the Riksräkenskapsverket was renamed as the .

Separately in 1867, the was formed as an administrative authority of the Riksdag (the Swedish parliament) to audit and review all activities of the Riksdag.

On 15 December 2000, the Riksdag decided to merge both the Auditor General of the National Swedish Accounting and Audit Bureau and the Parliamentary (Riksdag) Auditors into the present-day Swedish National Audit Office, which took effect on 1 July 2003. The final Auditor General of the Auditor General of the National [Swedish] Accounting and Audit Bureau, Inga-Britt Ahlenius, was against said merger, as she claimed in several statements to the media that the merger would limit the Swedish National Audit Office's ability to act independently from the government.

References

Sveriges Riksdag (translated by Ray Bradfield), The Constitution of Sweden: The Fundamental Laws and the Riksdag Act. Sveriges Riksdag, Stockholm. 2012.

References

(2008-02-14). "Managing performance".

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