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                                                                       Status of
 Ref.         Observation             Recommendation            Implementation/Results
                                                                     of Validation
                                       and         establish
                                       accuracy of its PPE
                                       balances reported in
                                       the         financial
                                       statements.
                                    3. Lastly,           the    Unimplemented
                                       Inventory
                                       Committee       shall    Management         cannot
                                       adopt the uniform        immediately implement
                                       numbering system         the numbering system
                                       for         property     required by COA since
                                       numbers of PPE           Bayawan City is using a
                                       and require the          different      numbering
                                       Property Unit to         system,      which     is
                                       update the property      currently integrated into
                                       stickers based on        their eNGAS.
                                       the       prescribed
                                       format     and      to
                                       include the required
                                       information under
                                       Sections 5.6 and 5.7
                                       of the said COA
                                       Circular.
AAR       Prior year expenditures   4. The              City    Unimplemented
2023,     aggregating                  Accountant shall
AO no.    ₱5,016,193.60     were       direct            the    The Office of the City
2, page   erroneously recorded         Accounting Clerk         Accountant had already
40        as     current     year      assigned            in   accrued         necessary
          expenses, contrary to        recording         the    expenses before year-
          Section 119 of PD No.        expenditures       to,   end. However, there were
          1445 and IPSAS 1,            henceforth, review       still     prior       year
          therefore resulting in       those which pertain      expenditures      totaling
          the overstatement of         to the prior period,     ₱1,677,395.76       which
          the related expense          and journalize these     were          erroneously
          accounts            and      items               as   recorded in CY 2024.
          understatement of the        adjustments         to
          surplus for the current      equity           and     This is reiterated in the
          period, affecting the        corresponding real       audit of CY 2024
          fairness     of     the      or           accrued     accounts     as     Audit
                                       accounts,      rather    Observation (AO) No. 5.

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