To audit the accounts, financial systems and financial management of all departments, institutions and agencies of government, all provincial and metropolitan councils and all local authorities; At the request of the Government, to carry out special audits of the accounts of any statutory body or government-controlled entity; to order the taking of measures to rectify any defects in the management and safeguarding of public funds and public property, and to exercise any other functions that may be conferred or imposed on him or her by or under an Act of Parliament.
