Auditor-General vows tough surcharges, unveils tracker, AI audits

Dr Graham, Ghana’s first female Auditor-General, announced this at the launch of the 2026 financial year audit in Accra, on the theme: “Strengthening accountability in public institutions: Building trust through collaboration and action.

On technology, Dr Graham said the Audit Service would expand the use of data analytics, data-driven auditing and appropriately governed artificial intelligence to move progressively beyond limited samples to whole-population analysis, where data quality permitted.

Dr Graham said the Audit Recommendations Tracker, to be deployed in October 2026, would show implemented and outstanding recommendations, amounts identified, pursued and recovered, as well as systemic weaknesses that continued to expose public resources to risk.