Annual general report of the controller and - Parliament of Tanzania

It is important to note that an unqualified audit opinion
does not give assurance that the financial statements are
completely free of error or misstatements.
2.3 Status of the accounts of PA&oB’s
The Controller and Auditor General has identified 164
Public Authorities and other Bodies during the financial
year ended 30 th June 2008 compared to the 158 Public
Authorities captured in the financial year ended 30 th June
2007. Accounts submitted for the audit were 145. Out of
the 145 accounts submitted, the Controller and Auditor
General was able to issue audit reports on 101 accounts
by the date of issue of this report (31 st March 2009).
Audits of the accounts of 44 Public Authorities are in
various stages of completion. Chief Executive Officers of
19 Public Authorities were in various stages preparing
their financial statements ready for audit. The 101
individual audit accounts and management letters were
also issued to the respective Board of Directors and their
Ministries respectively. In summary, the above
information is shown in the table below:
S/No Category of
the Entity
Audited
Accounts
Audit in
Progress
Accounts
not
Submitted
Total
1 Water
Authorities
18 6 5 29
2 Regulatory
Bodies
19 3 3 25
3 Higher
Learning
Institutions
12 9 3 24
4 Public
Parastatals
31 10 1 42
5 Government
Institutions
21 16 7 44
Total 101 44 19 164
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