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Internal Audit Draft Operational Plan 2010/2011

Meeting: 11/04/2011 - Audit Board (this committee has been combined with the Audit, Standards & Governance Committee and no longer meets) (Item 48)

48 Internal Audit Draft Operational Plan 2010/2011 PDF 95 KB

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Minutes:

Members considered a report which presented the Bromsgrove District Council’s Internal Audit Draft Operation Plan 2011/2012 and the Internal Audit Shared Service’s set of key performance indicators for 2011/2012.

Mr. A. Bromage, Worcestershire Internal Audit Shared Service, Audit Manager presented the report and informed Members of the objectives of the Worcestershire Internal Audit Shared Service. The Audit Manager and the Executive Director Finance and Corporate Resources responded to Members’ questions regards the reduced resource allocation for 2011/2012.

The Audit Manager informed Members that the Service Manager of the Worcestershire Internal Audit Shared Service was confident that she could provide management and those charged with governance with the assurances and coverage that they required over the system of internal control within the reduced resource allocation. The introduction of a consistent audit methodology and computerised audit software for 2011/2012 would result in a more efficient way of undertaking, documenting and managing work. This would lead to a reduction in the number of days required for audit reviews without a proportionate reduction in the assurances and coverage provided to management as more audits would be covered within a given resource allocation than would have been the case in previous years.

The Audit Manager informed Members that operational progress against the Internal Audit Plan for 2011/2012 would be closely monitored by the Service Manager of the Worcestershire Internal Audit Shared Service. The success or otherwise of the Internal Audit Shared Service would be measured against the agreed set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for 2011/2012. These KPIs would be reported, on a monthly basis, to the Shared Service’s Client Officer Group, which comprised of the section 151 officers from client organisations and on a quarterly basis to the Audit Board.

RESOLVED:

(a) that the Internal Audit Draft Operational Plan 2011/2012 as detailed in Appendix A to the report be approved; and

(b) that the Internal Audit Shared Service’s set of key performance indicators for 2011/2012 as detailed in Appendix B to the report be approved.