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It was unclear if Ms. Ambrose considered this a statement of explanation or a pronouncement of blame, but either way it would seem to clash somewhat with all of the above, as well as the auditor general's assertion that a 36 - year costing existed.

Not exact matches

«Alarmingly the Auditor General said that while $ 200 million was the amount he could track, the processes were so poor he had no idea how much was being spent within individual government agencies as part of the project,» Mr Buswell said.

As the paper indicates, companies often struggle with proper tariff classification as «the 2001 Report of the Auditor General of Canada revealed that 29 percent of tariff classifications provided by importers were incorrect, with 48 of the 53 companies examined making at least one error in classification»As the paper indicates, companies often struggle with proper tariff classification as «the 2001 Report of the Auditor General of Canada revealed that 29 percent of tariff classifications provided by importers were incorrect, with 48 of the 53 companies examined making at least one error in classification»as «the 2001 Report of the Auditor General of Canada revealed that 29 percent of tariff classifications provided by importers were incorrect, with 48 of the 53 companies examined making at least one error in classification».

(Coincidentally, the $ 950 million that the government plans to spend building superclusters is roughly the same amount as what the Auditor General reckons will be required to fix the Phoenix pay fiasco.

She previously served as General Auditor and Chief Ethics Officer from 2008 to 2009.

As a general rule, auditors general are a courteous bunch, so their report makes room for an official response to their critiques from the country's federal and provincial deputy ministers of the environment.

The Auditor General in his latest report concluded that the Finance Department has no idea as to the effectiveness tax expenditures are distorting economic decisions, misallocating resources and reducing market efficiencies and productivity.

These are the accounting standards upon which the Auditor General expresses his opinion as to whether the government's financial statements are presented «fairly» and on a «consistent basis».

According to the Auditor General, accrual appropriations would provide Parliament with the same basis and approval over voted spending as the government's overall financial plan and summary financial statements.

As noted by the Auditor General, the netting of these revenues understates the «nature and size» of the Government's activities.

Meanwhile, the interim auditor general has mused again that, in regards to the use of border infrastructure funds for G8 Legacy projects, «lawyers could have an interesting debate as to whether any laws were broken.»

The Auditor General, in her Observations on the financial statements, stated that «having accrual - based budgeting results in improved financial oversight as the plans and related results are on the same basis of accounting and therefore result in better transparency and accounting.

As a result, New Democrats asked the Auditor General to investigate.

«Mr. Speaker, as I indicated and as the member knows,» Ms. Ambrose offered the NDP's Matthew Kellway, «the Auditor General asked that the Department of National Defence refine its cost estimates.

That, in light of $ 3.1 billion of missing funds outlined in Chapter Eight of the 2013 Spring Report of the Auditor General of Canada, an order of the House do issue for the following documents from 2001 to the present, allowing for redaction based on national security: (a) all Public Security and Anti-Terrorism annual reports submitted to the Treasury Board Secretariat; (b) all Treasury Board submissions made as part of the Initiative; (c) all departmental evaluations of the Initiative; (d) the Treasury Board corporate database established to monitor funding; that these records be provided to the House in both official languages by June 17, 2013; that the Speaker make arrangements for these records to be made available online; and that the Auditor - General be given all necessary resources to perform an in - depth forensic audit until the missing $ 3.1 billion is found and accounted for.

Most recently, he was unwilling to provide reasons as to why $ 3.1 billion of funds, identified by the Auditor General of Canada, allocated to public security and anti-terrorism initiatives, was not spent.

This raises the issue as to how serious the Government is in accepting the Auditor General's recommendations.

The Federal Civil Service Commission has approved the appointment of Florence Anyanwu as the acting Auditor - General of the Federation

He previously served as Pennsylvania Treasurer 2004 - 2006 and Pennsylvania Auditor General from 1997 to 2004.

The comptroller and auditor general told MPs that firms as large as Serco and G4S struggle to control the way bonuses incentivise certain behaviours because of their size.

Reports from the Auditor General's Department had shown that the country loses millions every year through the activities of MDAs, as well as the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies.

The Vice Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament, Samuel Atta Akyea, has described as disgraceful, the high level of financial impropriety uncovered in the accounts of the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) by the Auditor General in 2013 and 2014.

Donald A. Bailey, a member of Congress from Pennsylvania between 1978 and 1982, and Pennsylvania's Auditor between 1984 and 1988, will run for Pennsylvania Attorney General this year as an independent, according to this story.

In many states where the following positions are elected offices, voters elected state executive branch offices (including Lieutenant Governors (though some will be voted for on the same ticket as the gubernatorial nominee), Secretary of state, state Treasurer, state Auditor, state Attorney General, state Superintendent of Education, Commissioners of Insurance, Agriculture or, Labor, etc.) and state judicial branch offices (seats on state Supreme Courts and, in some states, state appellate courts).

The unearned salaries, according to the Auditor - General, is contrary to Regulation 297 of the Financial Administration Regulation (FAR), 2004, which requires the Head of Department to cause the immediate stoppage of salary to a public servant who has separated from the department as a result of resignation, retirement, death among many others.

Auditor general John Bourn was appointed as an independent advisor to government ministers on the code of conduct following the row over culture secretary Tessa Jowell in March.

Some officials of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), have admitted culpability in the malfeasance involving the public auctioning off some 24 vehicles belonging to the Ministry between 2011 and 2013, as captured in the 2015 Auditor General's report.

The amount according to the Auditor General's report, was from financial weaknesses in cash, tax, payroll, procurement, rent and contract irregularities as well as outstanding debts and loans.

Ohio State Auditor Betty Montgomery dropped out of the race for Governor and announced she would run for her old position as Attorney General, setting up another contentious GOP primary battle for that post (vs. State Sen. Grendell and Franklin Co. pros.

While in the books of the NHIA, it had GH cents 544,976,790 as the government debt, the Public Accounts had GH cents 793,543,687, with the difference noted as GH cents 248,566,897 by the Auditor - General.

The executive officers of the state shall be the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor of Public Accounts, State Treasurer, Attorney General, and the heads of such other executive departments as set forth herein or as may be established by law.

In April 2017, the two institutions together with the auctioneers who disposed off the vehicles, some for as low as GHc 1,000, faced the Committee to explain the infractions as captured in the Auditor General's report.

We represent our clients in both state and federal courts and before state and federal administrative agencies such as the Texas Education Agency, State Board of Education, Texas Attorney General, Texas State Auditor, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Secretary of State, Texas Department of Agriculture, the Texas Workforce Commission, the Texas Commission on Human Rights, the Department of Education / Office of Civil Rights, Department of Labor, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Health & Human Services, Department of Justice and various other federal agencies.

In 2013 - 2014, the Auditor General reported public district schools as devoting 52 % of all spending in the classroom.

Charter school financial data needs to be shared with and monitored by the Auditor General's Office just as they are for public district schools.

Key Recommendation: Charter school financial data needs to be shared and monitored by the Auditor General just as is done with district schools.

Charter school financial data needs to be collected and monitored by the Auditor General's Office just as they are for traditional public districts.

It's possible to pull the wool over the auditors» eyes, because most of them are totally and completely ignorant of the basics of GAAP as it applies to publishers, much less FASB regs on publishing, but in general, very few of the large publishers have any intentional irregularities.

The government should instead be taking a chainsaw to public spending, much of which, as multiple reports from the Comptroller and Auditor General show, disappears into a black hole.

In his first report as Canada's Auditor - General, Michael Ferguson highlighted several areas of improvement for the Canada Revenue Agency in how it monitors and enforces cases where individuals and corporations fail to file tax returns, and where businesses fail to register for the Goods and Services Tax (GST) or Harmonized Sales Tax (HST).

Something known as the «Little Egypt Bump» took advantage of depreciation charges during mergers and raised eyebrows at the federal Auditor - General's office as far back as 1986.

This committee consists of three distinct positions, which may or may not necessitate three individuals: Chairman, responsible for all aspects of the Invitational; Event Registrar, responsible for all paperwork and record keeping of the Invitational; Auditor, responsible for coordinating assistants and final compilation of judging sheets; and general Committee Members, who act as Stewards and perform other supporting roles, as needed.

As we reported, public service workers within the Audit department are not happy with the Auditor General, Dorothy Bradley.

David White, energy consultant to governments in Europe and in the U.S.A., states that «it is imperative that the Auditor General's Office investigate this wasteful investment of public funds (wind - farms) and that Ontario's Legislature place an immediate moratorium on the building of new wind turbine facilities in the province as well as end subsidies and tax incentives paid to the wind industry.»

«As many have pointed out, including Canada's auditor general and UN secretary general Ban Ki - Moon, Canada does not have plans in place to keep its promise to the world.»

The result of the foregoing does not excuse the findings of the Auditor General but do point out the damage that has been done to this publically owned institution that delivers relatively cheap power but has been used as a political football by successive Liberal energy ministers.

As disclosed by the Auditor General, if Thunder Bay produces any power, it will cost $ 1,500 per megawatt hour (MWh).

Last year, the Ontario Auditor General's report noted that renewable contracts (wind and solar) were handed out at above market prices; as a result, Ontario ratepayers overpaid by billions.

The Auditor General for Ontario has stated that Ontario has paid far too much for wind power and that in fact, the citizens of Ontario overpaid by as much as $ 9 billion.

The electricity sector's share of greenhouse gas emissions in Ontario in 2012 was only about 9 percent of total emissions, compared to the transportation sector with 34 percent and the industrial sector with 30 percent (Ontario, Auditor General 2015), meaning that further environmental gains in the electricity sector are inherently limited.4 In any event, this impact needs to be compared to other alternatives, such as further enhancing transmission connections and expanding power purchase agreements with neighbouring jurisdictions, in particular Quebec and Manitoba, which have substantial clean hydroelectric resources.