Annual general report of the controller and - Parliament of Tanzania

5 Tanzania
BrodcastingCorporation
(TBC)
Qualified
opinion
27,260,000 with single
quotation, evaluation done by
the tender committee and
approved by the Managing
Editor. The practice was
completely contrary to the PPA
No. 21 of 2004.
• Questionable Purchase of
Newsprint and Thermal Plates
Chemicals - Shs 1,404,785,324.
• Questionable purchases of a
Server for the Company use –
Shs. 13,956,444 ( USD
11,630.37)
• Long outstanding debtors Shs
2,418,253,908.02
Limitation of scope
Programs and Commercial
advertisements revenue
As reported in previous year, the
TBC receives commercial orders
and raises broadcasting
confirmation orders (BCOs) and
programs certificates for
commercial advertisements and
programs aired. The invoices to
customers are prepared on the
basis of BCOs that are approved
by the Director of Marketing. TBC
did not maintain list of all
commercial orders received and
processed and BCOs raised during
the year. We further noted a
difference of TShs 2,217,323,619
between revenue summary from
Marketing department and the
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