[1] The Office of the Auditor General was first formally established during British rule, under the Burma Act of 1935.
[2] In 1974, the Pyithu Hluttaw passed the Council of People’s Inspectors Law, which repealed the 1948 law and merged all auditing agencies, except the Controller of Military Accounts, into a centralised agency, the Central Accounts Office, in January 1974.
On 27 September 1988, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), which had recently seized power, appointed an Auditor General and Deputy Auditor General, under Order No.
[2] On 8 March 1994, the State Law and Order Restoration Council replaced the Accounting Law, which established an Office of the Auditor General of the Union (OAG) that acts as the Secretariat of the Myanmar Accountancy Council, the nation's professional accountancy body.
[2] Thein Htaik died and a new auditor general, U Myo Myint, was appointed to the position in 2016.