Sentences with phrase «own auditor general»

A RECENT investigation by the Auditor General has added weight to state government plans to amalgamate many Western Australian ports, particularly in regional areas.

Auditor General Colin Murphy said the project was two years late and its viability was under serious threat.

«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.

(The only performance score to exceed Dodge's in a COMPAS poll was given to the Stephen Harper government for the clean report it received from the Auditor General on its 2005 - 2006 financial statements.)

Treasurer Eric Ripper today announced that Colin Murphy would be appointed acting auditor general of Western Australia.

Auditor general Colin Murphy has expressed disappointment with what he claims is the failure by many state government agencies to appropriately manage their IT systems.

The auditor general has slammed Liberal ministers Peter Collier, Kim Hames and Liza Harvey for withholding information in parliament.

A report by the auditor general has found the state government's Pilbara Underground Power Project will cost nearly double the original estimate and be completed six years behind schedule because of poor planning and management.

The auditor general says the state government has made a good start on its $ 400 million land asset sales program but improvements could be made, following criticism earlier this week that some properties are being sold at a loss.

The state government has released details of its new digital innovation framework on the same day the auditor general slammed the state for letting its ICT strategy fall behind the rest of the country.

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».

McGowan said the government must scrap low - wage jobs from the program and suspend its use for medium to high - skilled workers pending an investigation by the auditor general.

(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.

The auditor general has found major flaws in the state government's Buy Local policy, with concerns regarding data collection leaving agencies unsure if the policy is benefitting local businesses.

Those gas - fired plants were originally going to be built in Mississauga and Oakville until the Liberals cancelled them days before the 2011 election, which the auditor general said would cost ratepayers up to $ 1.1 billion.

Ontario's auditor general issued a similar warning last week, cautioning that despite Ontario's work to eliminate its deficit, the province's rising net debt — the difference between its liabilities and its total assets — could have a number of negative implications for its finances in the future.

Auditor general Bonnie Lysyk's report noted that the government now spends more on debt interest than it does on post-secondary education, and those interest costs are growing.

Another consideration with the $ 8 billion figure is that although the Auditor General has included the cost of long - term maintenance, this assumes the public sector does not defer repairs.

When Auditor General Michael Ferguson prodded Finance Canada last fall to make such comprehensive forecasts available to the public, the department politely declined, noting that «the federal government is not accountable for the fiscal situation of the provinces and territories.»

«In utilities you do some of that to smooth rates, but what the auditor general is concerned about is this technique is being abused,» Ralston said.

Although the Auditor General concludes that the federal government's finances are sustainable over the long term, he raises a number of important issues in his report.

The Ontario Auditor General's 2014 Report includes a chapter on Infrastructure Ontario's P3 program that is particularly damning — and corresponds with many of the criticisms made on this blog and elsewhere by myself and others.

Transparency and accountability would be significantly improved if the Government adopted fully the Auditor General's recommendations.

The report from the auditors general is useful background for what's supposed to be a crucial year.

The Auditor General, in her observations on the government's financial statements, has urged the Treasury Board to implement accrual - based appropriations.

Parliament would be well served if the government adopted the recommendations of the Auditor General

Second, although the Auditor General concludes that the Department of Finance's fiscal sustainability analyses are based on sound practices, he questions why they are not done for all major initiatives or on a timely basis.

The fact that BC Hydro was deferring hundreds of millions of dollars of expenses was flagged by BC's auditor general in 2011.

Finally, the Auditor General's report observes that background material produced internally for the Department of Finance in 2009 concluded that the elderly benefit system was sustainable in the long term.

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.

Canada's federal auditor general, Michael Ferguson, worked with his counterparts in nearly every provincial government.

The union's criticism of BC Hydro accounting practices echoes a warning made last fall by B.C. Auditor General John Doyle.

The auditor general is concerned the dollar amount is building up rapidly and there's no plan to get out of it, said Ralston, noting the total deferred amount is projected to hit $ 5 billion by 2017.

The Auditor General recommends that the Government honour its 2007 Budget commitment and publish fiscal sustainability reports for both the federal government and provincial governments, on a regular basis.

Last week's Auditor General's report on the Beyond - the - Border Action Plan — the latest in a series of initiatives aimed at improving border access — identified shortcomings that should be Canadian priorities with U.S. negotiators.

Anyone wondering why Canadians sometimes lose faith in government's ability to get anything done should read a report that the country's auditors general released at the end of March.

This is not the first time the Auditor General has called for the Government to provide Parliamentarians and Canadians with long - term fiscal sustainability reports.

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».

The Auditor General of Canada has raised this accounting difference on numerous occasions.

Opposition gathered steam after a 2002 report from Auditor General Sheila Fraser put estimated the registry tab would climb to $ 1 billion by 2005.

The Auditor General has also recommended that the federal government provided long - term sustainability analyses for the total government sector.

And it did so only after the Auditor General of Canada brought this issue to light.However, it only released information relating to the federal government, even though it promised in 2007 to present analyses on the total government sector.

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.

The Auditor General of Canada has raised this issue on numerous occasions.

This means that the Public Accounts are usually tabled 2 - 3 months after the Auditor General has signed off.

The outgoing Auditor General expressed concerns about a number of significant and emerging pressures facing the Government, including an ageing infrastructure, and ageing population and insufficient progress in addressing Aboriginal pressures on reserves.

They are also calling for the auditor general to do mandatory performance audits of the Commons and Senate every three years.

In her Opinion on the 2009 - 10 condensed financial statements, the Auditor General noted that she would be commenting in more detail on «significant accounting changes to the accounts for the Employment Insurance program», which she wanted to draw to Parliament's attention.

The Auditor General objected to this claim, and the Financial Accountability Office (FAO) of Ontario has adopted the Auditor General's recommendation in its fiscal projections.