Decision details

The Committee considered a report by MAZARS Public Sector Internal Audit Limited regarding the Internal Audit Annual report for 2018/19 (circulated previously).

The Committee was advised of the following in relation to the Internal Audit Annual Report 2018/19:

• 18 Audits had been undertaken during the 2018/19 year. 
• Although the report stated that six audits were still in draft format, the Auditor confirmed that now only one or two were now still drafts.  He was satisfied with the progress of the audit to date.
• There had been very little change since the previous year and therefore been no need to change the opinion.
• The opinion for 2018/19 on both the financial systems, and non-financial systems, was that “Internal controls within operational and financial systems operating throughout the year are fundamentally sound”.
• MAZARS had met or exceeded three of the four Performance measures – missing the fourth (Average customer satisfaction score target) by 0.17 (the target was 4, but they attained a score of 3.83).

RESOLVED that the Internal Audit Annual report 2018/19 be noted.