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Meeting: 16/03/2009 - Audit Board (this committee has been combined with the Audit, Standards & Governance Committee and no longer meets) (Item 45)

45 External Audit Opinion Plan 2008/2009 pdf icon PDF 48 KB

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Minutes:

A copy of the Audit Commission’s Audit Opinion Plan 2008/2009 was considered.  Joan Hill, Audit Manager with the Audit Commission presented the report.  The Plan set out work that the Audit Commission proposed to undertake in 2008/2009 in relation to the following specific risks which had been identified:

  • Transfer of the payroll system
  • Valuations of fixed assets in light of the current economic climate
  • Introduction of the electronic ordering and invoicing system
  • Methodology for identifying prepayments
  • Policy for related parties arrangements

 

The Head of Financial Services responded to questions from Members and provided some background information on the transfer of the payroll system and the need for the Audit Commission to repeat their triennial review of Internal Audit as a result of the change of personnel within the service area.

 

The work by the Audit Commission would enable a robust opinion to be made across all the internal control and accounting arrangements that the Council had in place.

 

RESOLVED that the Audit Commission’s 2008/2009 Opinion Plan as set out in Appendix A to the report be noted and agreed.