Issue - meetings
Deloitte External Audit status update: latest position and timescales to completion for 2020/21 audit
Meeting: 13/12/2021 - Audit Committee (Item 364)
Report of Deputy Chief Executive and Executive Director (Finance and Resources) attached
Additional documents:
- Deloitte LLP letter Dec 2021, item 364 PDF 106 KB
- Webcast for Deloitte External Audit status update: latest position and timescales to completion for 2020/21 audit
Minutes:
The Committee received an update from the Council’s external auditors on the audit of the Statement of Accounts for 2020/21, including work on arrangements to secure value for money.
Members were advised that the audit of the Statement of Accounts was in progress, but that the external auditors were not currently in a position to report more substantively on the outcome of the audit work at the current time, as a result of factors impacting the completion of audit work nationally.
In noting the position on the Statements of Accounts, the Committee was advised that the Council’s external auditors continued to receive the full cooperation and assistance of the Executive Director (Finance and Resources) and his staff in connection with the audit process.
Resolved:
That the current position with regard to the audit of the Council’s Statement of Accounts for 2020/21, be noted.
Meeting: 20/10/2021 - Audit Committee (Item 5.)
Report of the Executive Director (Finance and Resources) to follow
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