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17.1.2020 - 10:34

The promotion of digitalisation encourages critical assessment of previous practices and development of new kinds of approaches and practices in the entire education system, including general education. This was one of the conclusions of the workshop that the NAOF organised for the different stakeholders. The NAOF has now published a report on the outcomes of the workshop.

19.12.2019 - 09:00

We thank public officials, members of Parliament and other cooperators as well as all those interested in public finances and governance for the past year. Season’s Greetings and Happy New Year 2020!

17.12.2019 - 14:00

In an event organised in connection with the Finnish EU Presidency, audit and statistics authorities discussed their shared means for ensuring the reliability of fiscal data.

2.12.2019 - 16:38

In an event organised in connection with the Finnish EU Presidency, supreme audit and statistics authorities discussed their shared means for ensuring the reliability of fiscal data.

16.1.2020 - 06:45

The promotion of digitalisation in general education is currently fragmented. The situation calls for new kind of collaboration between the different actors, and central government should assume an active role in this. It is also necessary to specify the competence that the different actors need in order to be able to promote digitalisation. These were the conclusions of a workshop that the National Audit Office of Finland organised for the stakeholders involved in digitalisation.

12.12.2019 - 13:22

The National Audit Office has overseen compliance with the obligation to disclose election funding and election campaign costs in the 2019 parliamentary elections as prescribed by law. All persons subject to the disclosure obligation filed an election funding disclosure.

27.11.2019 - 06:45

So far, the assessment of the sustainability of public finances has focused on the long-term sustainability gap. Assessment methods should be broadened.

27.11.2019 - 06:45

Challenges in the medium-term economic forecasting impede the planning of counter-cyclical fiscal policy. According to the National Audit Office, the Ministry of Finance should broaden its medium-term economic forecasting by introducing new methods alongside the current output gap estimates that reflect the cyclical conditions.

17.1.2020 - 11:21

In the autumn of 2018, the participants in the NAOF's programme for young professionals were given the assignment of bringing artificial intelligence (AI) to the agency. The outcome of the assignment was presented to the personnel and our external stakeholders in the summer of 2019. Together we are more – the outcome was a happy surprise even to the participants.

9.1.2020 - 10:03

The NAOF's programme for young professionals is about to end. A lot has been achieved in less than two years.

20.12.2019 - 10:47

Of the state-owned companies, the one that has recently been in the public eye is Posti (the leading postal and logistics service company in Finland). However, state holdings share the same problems. In addition to Posti, the other state holdings should also be assessed sufficiently often to avoid these problems. The icebreaking services provider Arctia, for example, operates in a difficult environment as regards the profitability of the business.

12.12.2019 - 12:00

The purpose of the mechanism is to make it possible to react to a severe recession with an economic stimulus, i.e. to decide on a one-off increase in expenditure in the state budget.

20.9.2019 - 11:39

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