These guidelines are intended to be applicable to all SAIs and to all audits. This has required a particular approach to their presentation. The guidelines below, presented in bold type, are stated as basic principles. It is considered that each SAI is best equipped to decide how best to implement each guideline in the context of its own structure and of the types of audits that it performs. For example, in an SAI with a highly decentralised management structure (such as some “courts of audit”) responsibility for implementing the guidelines may.
