Follow up on completed Audits from 2003-2008 (March 2009)

Background

Audit, Evaluation and Disclosure Branch (AED), have completed a number of audits over the past several years that have been posted to the public website. A comprehensive review of our progress towards accomplishing action plans on the audits was conducted in 2008.

Where recommendations can now be considered to be complete, evidence was examined and the recommendations were removed from further review. For those that remain outstanding, updated dates as to expected completion have been determined along with the status of the progress towards completion. These outstanding recommendations will be reviewed as a regular follow up process, expected to occur every six months. Results of follow up work will be reported to the Departmental Audit Committee.

Any new recommendations from recently completed audits and evaluations will be added to the list of outstanding recommendations as they are approved. For the purposes of this review, recommendations that had action plans with expected completion dates of Jan 2009 or earlier were reviewed. This process will be regular and ongoing. Recommendations are considered to be implemented or complete when evidence exists and is examined by AED to verify completion.

The following table indicates those audits that were assessed under this process along with the number of recommendations from each project that are now complete and the number that remain outstanding.

Audits

Project	Number of recommendations	Complete	Outstanding	Percent complete
Audit of Community Futures Program (April 2003)	2	2	0	100.0%
Audit of the Canada-BC Infrastructure Program (April 2003)	3	3	0	100.0%
Audit of Contracting Standards (Jan 2004)	3	2	1	67%
Financial Management Audit of Grants and Contributions (July 2006)	2	1	1	50%
BMCI Audit of Grants and Contributions 2006 -management letter	1	1	0	100%
Audit of the Infrastructure Canada Program (July 2006)	1	1	0	100.0%
Audit of the Management of Physical Records(July 2006)	6	4	2	67%
Audit of the Administration of Grants and Contributions (July 2007)	3	0	3	0%
Audit of Hospitality(Nov 2007)	3	0	3	0%
Audit of Travel (Nov 2007)	4	1	3	25%
Audit of the Women’s Enterprise Initiative (Feb 2008)	19	15	4	79%
Audit of the Loan Investment Program (April 2008)	7	4	3	57%
Audit of Governance and Performance (April 2008)	11	10	1	91%
Audit of Financial Management Controls (Sept 2008)	2	1	1	50%
TOTAL	67	45	22	67%