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Report to those charged with Governance - Mazars Audit Completed Report

Meeting: 30/09/2022 - Audit & Corporate Overview Scrutiny Committee (Item 28)

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Minutes:

Committee considered a detailed report presented by Mark Surridge from Mazars, the Council’s external auditors, in relation to their audit work for the year ending 31st March 2022.

 

Mazars’ work on the Council’s financial statements was substantially complete and there were currently no matters of which they were aware that would require modification of their audit opinion, subject to the outstanding matters as detailed in their report.  One of these matters was in relation to the Derbyshire Pension Fund as Mazars were yet to receive the final report from the pension fund auditor for consideration and completion of the testing required.

 

Mazars were pleased to report that there were no unadjusted misstatements identified during the course of the audit work to date above the trivial reporting threshold of £40k. Mazars would update the Committee if any reportable misstatements were identified as a result of the remaining work as summarised at page 7 of their report. 

 

In relation to value for money, Mazars were yet to complete their work in respect of the Council’s arrangements for the year ended 31st March 2022.  However, at the time of their report, they had not identified any significant weaknesses in arrangements that required them to make a recommendation.

 

The Portfolio Holder for Finance noted the number of Covid grants issued and how staff had worked extremely hard and gone the extra mile to pay these out to eligible people.  The Chair echoed this and agreed that the work of staff had been exceptional.

 

Moved by Councillor Tom Munro and seconded by Councillor Graham Parkin

RESOLVED that the report be noted.

 


Meeting: 13/09/2022 - Audit & Corporate Overview Scrutiny Committee (Item 6.)

Report to those charged with Governance - Mazars Audit Completed Report