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Audit opinion plan 2011/12

Meeting: 21/03/2012 - Audit and Governance Committee (Item 67)

67 External audit plan 2011/12 pdf icon PDF 498 KB

To consider the audit opinion plan from the Audit Commission. 

 

Reporting: Maria Grindley

Minutes:

Maria Grindley of the Audit Commission presented the 2011/12 external audit plan.  The plan set out the work the external auditor would carry out for the council for the 2011/12 audit.  This work included an audit of the council’s statement of accounts and give an opinion on whether the council gave value for money through its arrangements to secure economy, efficiency and effectiveness.  The plan set out timescales for each piece of work.  The committee noted that the deadlines were unlikely to change.  The external auditors would continue to work up to the deadline, submit papers in time for the committee meetings but would then continue to update them thereafter. 

 

The committee noted that following the government’s decision to disband the Audit Commission and privatise the external audit of local authorities, the government had appointed Ernst & Young as the council’s external auditor with effect from a date to be determined.  Ernst & Young would act as the external auditor for all local authorities across south-east England.  Maria Grindley, Anne Ockleston and Adam Prickett, all of which had audited the council over the past few years for the Audit Commission, would continue to do this for the council but would be transferred to Ernst & Young. 

 

RESOLVED: to welcome the report, note the external auditor’s fee for this work, and the government’s appointment of Ernst & Young as the council’s external auditor from a date to be determined. 


 

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