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MINISTER FOR FINANCE AND URBAN SERVICES
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION
QUESTION NO 409
Annual Report - Urban Services
Mrs Grassy - asked the Minister for Finance and Urban Services -
(1) Are you aware that the 1989/90 Annual Report for the
Department of Urban Services wholly contained draft,
unaudited financial statements.
(2) Are you aware that the 1989/90 Annual Report for the
Department of Urban Services contained no figures at all
pertaining to the Natural and Cultural Resources program.
(3) What steps are you taking to ensure that, future Annual
Reports for the Department of Urban Services will contain
fully audited financial statements for all areas and
programs covered by your Department.
Mr Duty - the answer to Mrs Grassbys question is as follows:
(1) and (2) The Annual Report of the Department of Urban Services includes a letter of transmission from the Secretary advising that the Report contains draft, unaudited financial statements and that at .the time of printing no figures were available for the Natural and Cultural Resources program.
(3) The delays in the completion of the Departments unitary and aggregate financial statements have been due to several factors as outlined in my approval to extend the time for the submission of the statements as tabled in the Assembly on 20 February 1991. The reasons given are:
. the complexity of the Departments operations, particularly in terms of the range of appropriation, trust account and agency services financial accounting structures;
. the guidelines for the preparation of the statements were not issued until September 1990;
. the unusual accounting period - 11 May 1989 to 30 June 1990 -
which requires more manual extraction of data and the
calculation of account balances, and the requirement for a
second comparative statement for the twelve month period
1 July 1989 to 30 June 1990.
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