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Originally Posted by jonbxx
First, a solid doffing of the cap for the research, thanks for bringing links, it's always appreciated!!
As I said, I am not a finance person, I'm a scientist so I guess I took this at face value. Is the methodology used different from that used elsewhere, i.e. commercial auditing or other governmental audits? I had a brief look and it seems sampling is used a lot but I am not familiar with what is good practive.
On the trust issue, as a member of the EU, we have a mutually agreed remedy for disputes in the ECJ. We of course don't want any of that going forward so along with a trade deal, there is going to be a strong remedial/governance system going forward, especially if there is evidence or suspicion of wrongdoing by one party beforehand.
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There is sampling in audits of companies and organisations as you obviously can't check everything. You're looking for differences to previous years, have issues from previous years been rectified, differences to similar organisations, anything unusual and obviously there's a degree of proportionality so you focus on large amounts and high risk areas. If your organisation did 20% of its business with Nigeria and 30% with Germany, for example, you may look more at the Nigerian transactions as the country is a higher risk country.
There's a good fact-checking article on the EU accounts here
https://fullfact.org/europe/did-audi...ign-eu-budget/