Mhlongo proposed a change in the way financial statements were submitted at a recent council sitting held at the Giyani Community Hall, citing a lack of time to review and remedy inaccuracies properly. “At our first two meetings on August 25 and 29, we reviewed the AFS’s (Audit Financial Statements) and the APR’s (Annual Performance Reports) as part of preparing them for approval,” he explained. While reviewing the statements, the committee realised that the process of review was too close to the deadline of August 31.
According to him, the financial statements needed to be reviewed first by the internal audit, the Limpopo Provincial Treasury, and CoGHSTA before they were finally reviewed by the committee. “If you look at the time that was left to complete that process, you will realise that it was very tight. “I’m not saying that the AFS and APR statements that were submitted were of poor quality, but perhaps if we had done it much earlier, we could have submitted even better-quality statements,” he said.
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He urged the municipality to change its system and ensure that the financial statements were submitted at…
