The auditing function started on January 1928, where an audit branch named the "Accounts Review Department" was established in the Emirate of Transjordan, it had been charged with reviewing the financial accounts of the Emirate. Late 1930, the audit branch had been altered to a department, and was renamed with "Accounts Audit Department" under the ministerial resolution published in the Official Gazette No.271, 9 August 1930.