Issue - meetings

Report of the Chief Financial Officer to update the Committee on the final outcome of the annual audit for 2007/08 and to agree the final action plan proposed by the Council’s auditors following their audit of the accounts.

Graham Oliver, Head of Finance – Accounting and Control, presented the report to update the Committee on the final outcome of the annual audit for 2007/08 and the action plan proposed by the Council’s auditors following their audit of the accounts. The Council’s auditors delivered an unqualified audit opinion, and the findings of the audit had been presented to the General Purposes committee on 29 September 2008, prior to the audit being signed off. The Committee considered the auditors’ action plan and management response.

The Chair welcomed the timescale identified for implementation of the recommendations.

RESOLVED

That the management responses contained in the action plan be agreed.