The Office of the Auditor General of B.C. is an independent office of the legislature that contributes to excellence in effective and accountable government.
Our office promotes trust, cooperation, and teamwork in a diverse, inclusive, and respectful environment. We support each other, celebrate our successes, and encourage a healthy work/life balance for everyone. From an employment perspective, we offer opportunities for career growth, an excellent compensation package, and flexible working arrangements. Our flexible work arrangements include work from home and hybrid work options as well as the opportunity to work your hours at different times of the day.
The auditor general is an independent officer of the legislature and appointed to a single, eight-year term by a committee of elected members of the Legislative Assembly.
The office, under the leadership of the auditor general, performs financial audits and performance audits, and issues audit, information and examination reports. These audits and reports serve the people of British Columbia and their elected representatives by reporting on how well government is managing its responsibilities and resources.
Under the Auditor General Act, the auditor general has a mandate to audit the government reporting entity consisting of ministries, Crown corporations, and other organizations controlled by, or accountable to, the provincial government. This includes school districts, universities, colleges, health societies, and health authorities.
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Our logo
Our logo was developed in 2022 and was designed to celebrate the variety of our province: the O represents the sun; the A is visualized with a mountain; and the G is represented in a wave and coastline. The violet color was chosen because not only does it, in popular culture, connotate wisdom and thoughtfulness but violet in nature is used and seen sparingly. This is much like our office’s work within government – it is used sparingly to attract attention to significant items within the environment.
In the springtime you may see the flowering camas lilies. The Lekwungen term for camas is kwetlal and it is fundamental to the cultural identity of Coast Salish peoples. In a small but important way, we have adopted it to acknowledge with respect the Lekwungen peoples on whose traditional territories our office is located.
There is also inspiration of the violet/purple color that came from the fact that historically our office used purple pencils to make notes on audit work (traditionally green was also used for this, but OAGBC used purple!).
The color is used sparingly in our design work, usually only within the above mark, and is complimented by a broader colour palette that again reflects the diversity in our people, product, and province.
The previous logo had been in place since 1990 and was developed under then-auditor general, George Morfitt, with significant contributions from Les Kojima, who led a lot of the communications work in the late 1980’s.