The President is empowered under the Constitution to appoint the Auditor-General in accordance with the advice of the Prime Minister.
The Audit Act 1966 imposes a duty on the Auditor-General to audit the accounts of all departments and offices of the Singapore Government (including the office of the Public Service Commission), the accounts of the Supreme Court, all subordinate courts, and Parliament.
[4] On 2 October 2017, Parliament passed amendments to the Audit Act 1966 to grant the AGO additional powers to conduct "follow-the-dollar" audits to trace public monies beyond government agencies to non-government organisations to which the monies are disbursed, such as voluntary welfare organisations and autonomous universities.
Goh was previously deputy secretary at the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Prime Minister's Office before her appointment as Auditor-General in 2019.
Responding to a question from MP Sylvia Lim in Parliament, the Minister-in-charge of the Public Service, Chan Chun Seng, clarified that there is generally no conflict of interest between the AGO and the ministries which they audit and further, political office-holders are not involved in the audits conducted by the AGO.