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Local audit crisis ‘undermining’ financial oversight and ‘exacerbating’ pressures: Public Accounts Committee chair

(Sir Geoffrey Clinton Brown)

The local audit crisis is undermining the government’s ability to effectively monitor financial pressures within local authorities – and could be concealing issues leading to section 114 notices.

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That was the conclusion of a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on the Whole of Government Accounts 2022-23, which the National Audit Office was

Backstop dates and disclaimers, the appearance of the asset ceiling, local government reorganisation, simplification of accounts. Stephen Sheen assesses an eventful 2024 in the world of audit and accounts, and looks at what might happen next.

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