KARACHI, Oct 12: Improvement in skills and better understanding of auditing procedures are essential to deliver better results in the form of production of good quality audit report and improved recovery of revenues, speakers at a workshop emphasized.

Speaking at the valediction session of the two-day workshop held here on Tuesday, chief guest Ms Rukhsana Jabbar Memon, Deputy Auditor General, stressed upon the auditors to improve their skills.

This, she said, was necessary to assist the government in achieving its goals. She expressed the hope that the auditors would make an effort to meet the expectations of stakeholders in the audit exercise.

Najmul Arfeen, Director General of the Revenue Receipt Audit, Karachi, in his address stated that revenue auditors had produced good reports in the past and his department would spare no effort to come up to the expectations in the future as well.

Earlier in the day, senior officers from the CBR, the ministry of petroleum and natural resources and the government of Sindh delivered lectures on important budgetary changes in the meeting. The two day annual workshop on "Revenue auditing 2004-05" was organized by the DG Revenue Receipt Audit, Karachi.