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                                                                         Status of
  Ref.          Observation              Recommendation          Implementation/Results
                                                                       of Validation
13, page Philippine        Public          conduct of the System was still on-going
59       Sector (PPS) have not             Baseline              within      the        City
         been fully adopted and            Assessment         of Government.
         implemented by the                Internal     Control
         City      Government's            System,            in
         Internal Audit Services           accordance with the
         (IAS),     which      is          2020        Revised
         inconsistent with COA             PGIAM.
         Circular No. 2018-003         24. The IAS Head fully Unimplemented
         dated November 21,                adopt the IASPPS
         2018. Hence, this                 and ICSPPS in the Adoption of the IASPPS
         prevents the IAS from             performance        of and ICSPPS is on-going,
         assessing           and           their functions, in with the IAS studying the
         establishing a sound              accordance      with standards in order to fully
         internal control system           COA Circular No. adopt and implement
         within     the      City          2018-003       dated them to         the City
         Government.                       November          21, Government.
                                           2018.
AAR        The Head of the             25. The Local Chief Unimplemented
2023,      Internal Audit Services         Executive      avoid
AO no.     (IAS) of the City               assigning the Head The IAS Head still had
14, page   Government             of       of      the      IAS some responsibilities that
62         Bayawan has been                responsibilities for were              non-audit
           handling operational            non-audit             operational activities.
           responsibilities that are       operational
           not in line with the            activities     which
           Philippine Application          may impair the
           Guidelines       (PAG),         independence and
           Standard 1100 of the            objectivity of his
           Internal       Auditing         internal        audit
           Standards for the               functions.
           Philippine        Public
           Sector (IASPPS), thus
           impairing, to a certain
           degree,               his
           independence         and
           objectivity    in     the
           performance of his
           duties.



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