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The Internal Audit Service is responsible for ensuring that the procedures for managing risks, controls and management processes are assessed and improved in a systematic and orderly manner. It provides independent and impartial advice to the management of the Ministry on risk management and the performance of controls and management procedures. It determines whether the procedures for risk management and control are appropriate and ensures that the various leadership and management groups operate in an interconnected and coordinated manner. It also makes sure that financial, management and business information is accurate and timely, that employees act in accordance with directives, applicable regulations and ethical principles, and that resources are acquired in a cost-effective way, efficiently used and adequately insured.