“…In studies on SAIs, researchers pointed out these institutions' activities, being independent of the State's executive branch, their informational and other functions, position in the macrostructure, the role of SAI in financial accountability, and public management (Dye and Stapenhurst, 1998;O'Donnell, 1998;Pollitt at al., 1999;Stapenhurst and Titsworth, 2002;Dobrowolski, 2004;Santiso, 2006;González-Díaz and Fernández, 2008;Blume and Voigt, 2011;González-Díaz et al, 2013;Bringselius, 2014;Kożuch and Dobrowolski, 2014;Dobrowolski, 2017; Van Acker and Bouckaert, 2018; Cordery and Hay, 2019; European Court of Auditors, 2019; Dobrowolski and Sułkowski, 2020;Dobrowolski, 2020;Dobrowolski and Sułkowski, 2020a). Based on the previous study, one may formulate that SAIs play an essential role in each country.…”