According to the Federal Law on the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation and the main provisions of the Lima Declaration of the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI), the Accounts Chamber co-operates with foreign national control authorities.

In 1995, the Accounts Chamber joined INTOSAI and the European Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (EUROSAI); in 1996, it became member of the Asian Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI); and in 1999, member of the International Consortium for National Financial Management and is taking an active part in these international associations. As part of inter-regional co-operation, the Accounts Chamber collaborates with the Latin American and Caribbean Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (OLACEFS) and other regional organisations.

The first meeting of the INTOSAI Task Group for Combating International Money Laundering (de facto the group received the standing status at the 18th INTOSAI Congress) was held in Moscow in September 2003, at the initiative of the Accounts Chamber and by resolution of the 17th INTOSAI Congress; in 2004, a workshop and a meeting of the INTOSAI Committee for Using Electronic Data-Processing Devices in Audits and of the INTOSAI State Debt Monitoring Committee took place. A workshop and a meeting of the INTOSAI Task Group for Environmental Monitoring are scheduled for October 2005, in Moscow.

Mr. Sergey V. Stepashin, Chairman of the Accounts Chamber, was elected EUROSAI President at the 5th Congress of this organisation held in Moscow in May 2002. The Chamber takes an active part in EUROSAI workshops devoted to such issues as co-operation between supreme financial audit authorities and regional and local control authorities; information policy of supreme audit authorities and in global anti-corruption conferences.

Multilateral co-operation among supreme financial audit institutions of the CIS member states is evolving. At the initiative of the Accounts Chamber, a meeting of heads of the supreme audit institutions of the CIS nations was held in Moscow in November 2000, for the first time after the CIS formation. The crucial result of the meeting was recognition of the necessity of strengthening co-operation among supreme financial audit institutions within the CIS, both on bilateral and multilateral basis, and establishment of the Board of Heads of Supreme Financial Audit Institutions of the CIS Member States.

The Accounts Chamber has concluded collaboration contracts with national financial audit institutions of 36 nations, conducts joint, concurrent and joint/concurrent audits, also workshops devoted to topical audit problems, and exchanges methodical and information materials.

Materials concerning global experience and obtained in interaction with foreign audit institutions are widely used by the Accounts Chamber in practical operations, in development of audit standards and methods, in implementation of efficiency audit, in improvement of operations planning and in personnel further training.