Issue - meetings

To consider the draft statement of accounts for 2012/13 (see separate document).  Reporting officer: William Jacobs          TO FOLLOW

Purpose and recommendation: To approve the statement of accounts 2011/12. 

The committee considered the final statement of accounts for 2011/12 for approval and submission to the Audit Commission.  Tabled at the meeting was a list of the late adjustments to the statement of accounts.  The committee noted these. 

Also tabled at the meeting were notes from a question and answer session attended by committee members on 19 September.  These are appended to the committee’s minutes.  At this session, councillors asked detailed questions about the accounts.  The chairman requested that the outstanding actions in the notes should be listed in the committee’s actions arising report. 

The committee thanked Simon Hewings, the Shared Accountancy Manager (Revenue), for his work in finalising the accounts. 

RESOLVED: To

(a)               approve the statement of accounts 2011/12; and

(b)               include the outstanding actions from the question and answer session notes in the committee’s actions arising report.