Accounting Chamber ( uk, Рахункова палата України) is an audit body of the
Verkhovna Rada
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...
and the
supreme audit institution of Ukraine. The chamber's main purpose is to provide a control over use of funds of the State Budget of Ukraine (Article 98,
Constitution of Ukraine
The Constitution of Ukraine ( uk, Конституція України, translit=Konstytutsiia Ukrainy) is the fundamental law of Ukraine. The constitution was adopted and ratified at the 5th session of the ''Verkhovna Rada'', the parliament ...
). Role of the chamber in the Soviet times was performed by the
Workers-Peasants Inspection of the USSR.
Description
The composition of the Accounting Chamber includes the Chairman of the Accounting Chamber and members of the Accounting Chamber: First Deputy, Deputy Chairman, chief inspectors and the Secretary of the Accounting Chamber. All of them are also known as the Collegiate of the Accounting Chamber (or Board of the Accounting Chamber). The chamber has its own secretarial body, apparatus, and has a great degree of independence from other organs of the state administration. Members of the chamber cannot be
members of parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...
, government, employed in commercial activities, perform other work concurrently except for teaching, research and other creative activities during after hours.
Chairperson
* 1996-2011
Valentyn Symonenko
Valentyn Kostyantynovych Symonenko ( uk, Валентин Костянтинович Симоненко; born July 4, 1940, in Odesa) is a Ukrainian politician and former Soviet Communist Party functionary. Between 1996 and 2011 he was chairman of ...
* 2011-2012 Oleksandr Yaremenko (acting)
* 2012–present Roman Mahuta
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Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
Verkhovna Rada
Supreme audit institutions