The Inspection Board of Finance in Turkey is well-known and trusted institution in the field of investigating, searching and suppressing financial sources of the corruption, was set up in 1879, during the attempts to rearrange and improve the financial administration in the Ottoman Era, with the purpose of ensuring that all financial transactions of the state are audited and inspected by an authorized board under the authority of the Minister of Finance.

The Inspection Board of Finance which has a history of 130 years has not only led and determined the institutionalization of financial audit and tax review, but has also set a model for the inspection boards set up later and has acted as a school educating the executives for the senior positions in the administration.

The staff of the Board are hired after detailed preliminary investigation and very serious and objective processes consisting of preliminary eligibility election, written and oral examinations and that the hired staff are provided with a comprehensive and high quality training during 3-year assistant inspector positions to foster their skills to take a global approach towards events, to give them an organizational culture open to innovations and to develop their ability to decide independently has contributed to this acting as a school.