A Member of Parliament questions the Minister for Electoral Affairs regarding the quality and timeliness of financial reporting by agencies within the Minister's portfolio, as highlighted in the Auditor General's report. The Minister responds that the report's concerns did not apply to the WA Electoral Commission.

AnsweredQoN 3294Legislative Council
Asked
15 February 2011
Portfolio
Electoral Affairs

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I refer to the WA Auditor General Audit Results Report Annual 2009-10 Assurance Audits Report 10 Nov 2010, in Section 5 ‘Quality and Timeliness of Financial Reporting’ on page 30 where it refers to too many Agencies providing documents of unsatisfactory quality, causing audit costs to rise, often significantly, which can delay the issuing of the opinion and the tabling of the annual report, and I ask -
(1) What are the Agencies under the Minister’s portfolio that the audit is referring to?
(2) Have any Annual Reports of these Agencies been delayed because of the unsatisfactory quality of their documents for audit?
(3) What action has been taken to ensure these Agencies are able to improve their financial statements for audit?
(4) Can the Minister give an assurance that these Agencies will implement better quality control processes to improve the material they submit in time for the next audit?
(5) If no to (4), why not?

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Answered
14 March 2011
Responded by
Minister for Electoral Affairs
Response time
27 days
The comments in the subject Auditor General's report did not apply to the Western Australian Electoral Commission. Therefore (1)-(5) are not applicable.
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