Agenda item
Internal Audit Annual Report 2018/19.
Minutes:
Simon Cockings, Chief Auditor, presented a report
which outlines and reviews the work of the
Internal Audit Section during 2018/19 and includes the Chief Auditor’s required
opinion on the internal control environment for 2018/19 based on the audit testing
completed in the year.
He outlined and
detailed the contents of the report, including the following key areas:
·
Staffing
issues;
·
87% of audits were completed to at least draft
report stage during the year, whilst a further 5 audits were in progress
·
Time
spent per area was outlined in Appendix 1
·
The
audits finalised during 2018/19 were outlined fully at Appendix 2
·
During
the year 99% of recommendations made had been accepted by
clients.
·
Grants
certified and audited in 2018/19
·
Follow
up audits undertaken
·
Performance
Indicators – 10 out of 11 Performance Indicators had been met,
which was an improvement on 2017/18. These were outlined fully in Appendix 3
·
Quality
Assurance & Improvement Programme & Statement of Conformance with PSIAS
·
Statement
of Organisational Independence
·
Internal
Control Opinion
He placed on record his
thanks to the team for their excellent work during the past year.
The Committee raised
questions around issues of training, setting achievable targets, comparable
performance indicators particularly with those Authorities that do not set /
use performance indicators.
Resolved that the report be noted and approved.
Supporting documents:
- 09 (1 of 8) - Internal Audit Annual Report 201819 - Committee Meeting 13.08.19 Final, item 21. PDF 294 KB
- 09 (2 of 8) - Copy of Internal Audit Annual Report 201819 - Appendix 1 Final, item 21. PDF 7 KB
- 09 (3 of 8) - Copy of Internal Audit Annual Report 201819 - Appendix 2 Final, item 21. PDF 16 KB
- 09 (4 of 8) - Copy of Internal Audit Annual Report 201819 - Appendix 3 Final, item 21. PDF 8 KB
- 09 (5 of 8) - Internal Audit Annual Report 201819 - Appendix 4 Final, item 21. PDF 275 KB
- 09 (6 of 8) - Internal Audit Annual Report 201819 - Appendix 5 Final, item 21. PDF 260 KB
- 09 (7 of 8) - Internal Audit Annual Report 201819 - Appendix 6 Final, item 21. PDF 8 KB
- 09 (8 of 8) - Internal Audit Annual Report 201819 - Appendix 7 Final, item 21. PDF 506 KB