Internal Auditing and Corruption Prevention

Internal Auditing and Organisational Development provides independent and objective analysis, auditing and consulting services. These are aimed at creating transparency and ascertain compliance with regulations. In cooperation with all stakeholders, we improve administrative business processes to create clear structures and thus added value for TU Braunschweig and all employees.

The head of Internal Auditing is also the Anti-Corruption Officer and the Internal Auditing employees provide consulting services in anti-corruption activities.

General responsibilities of Internal Auditing and special auditing issues

• Counseling of TU Braunschweig institutions in their administrative tasks with regard to internal control systems and questions of corruption prevention
• Assisting the university management in the supervision of budgetary and economic activities
• Examination of efficiency, appropriateness and safety of the procedural and structural organisational arrangements of individual facilities or administrative processes
• Monitoring regularity of the management of budgetary and economic affairs of all TU Braunschweig facilities

Accounting and cash auditing issues

• Fundamental questions
• Evaluation of audit reports
• Settlement of doubtful issues
• Audit reports and memorandum contributions of the Landesrechnungshof [Court of Audit]
• Audit reports of the Staatliches Rechnungsprüfungsamt [State Audit Office]
• Audit reports from other external audit institutions outside Lower Saxony
• Supervision of the Payments Office

Corruption prevention and control

• Promoting employee awareness by counseling and education
• Proposals to the university management on internal investigations, on measures against concealment and on informing the public prosecutor's office in the event of a suspicion of corruption justified by facts
• Counselling on public relations activities
• Cooperation with law enforcement agencies on general anti-corruption issues