| Synopsis: |
The report provides background to local government and its management of resources. It also provides an update on a number of cases where local government auditors have had to exercise statutory powers in relation to council expenditure. The report comments generally on aspects of the Financial Management Arrangements, on Corporate Governance Arrangements, on a new Data Matching Exercise being developed as part of a National Fraud Initiative for Northern Ireland, and highlights a range of issues that local government auditors have raised with councils in the course of the audit of the council's statement of accounts for the year to 31 March, 2007. |