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Statement of Accounts 2021/22 Progress

Meeting: 28/09/2022 - Accounts and Audit (Item 357)

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Report of the Director of Resources enclosed.

Minutes:

The Director of Resources submitted a report providing Committee with an update on progress of the production, publication and external audit of the Statement of Accounts for 2021/22.

 

The deadline for the publication of the draft accounts had been met and the Statement of Accounts (subject to audit) were made available on the website on 29 July 2022. The proposed changes to the audit deadline by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) had been brought in through the Accounts and Audit (Amendment) Regulations 2022, and the deadline had changed from the end of September to the end of November. The Council’s external auditors, Grant Thornton, were working to the new deadline and it was anticipated that the audited Statement of Accounts would be brought to Committee for approval on 23 November 2022.