Irregular spending balloons by 80% as departments and state entities ignore guidelines
Irregular expenditure by government departments and the entities under their control ballooned almost 80% to R46.36bn in the 2015-16 financial year, as they failed to adhere to supply chain management guideline, auditor-general Kimi Makwetu said on Wednesday. He was briefing the media in Parliament on his general report on national and provincial government departments and their entities. Only 9% of the national auditees registered an improvement in the past three years. Only 30% received clean audits while 15% were disclaimed, adverse or outstanding. He mentioned improvements among provinces in the report, which assesses 484 auditees, including 196 national and provincial departments and 315 public entities with a budget of R1.2-trillion. Makwetu said in some cases those that received an unfavourable audit opinion did not have proper accounting systems in place to account adequately for their finances. There was also a growing number of entities whose financial statements were outs...
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