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                                                                            Status of
Reference         Observation             Recommendations               Implementation/
                                                                       Result of Validation
            decision        making
            pursuant to paragraph
            15 of the Philippine
            Public           Sector
            Accounting Standards
            (PPSAS) No.
2017 AAR;   Eighteen stale checks      53. The City Accountant         Not Implemented
AO No. 4;   totaling ₱328,922.48           review and analyze the
Page No.    age nine to 111 months         list   of    outstanding    Difficulties           in
54          were still reports as          checks and regularly        verification         and
            outstanding checks in          draw a JEV for the          gathering of supporting
            the bank reconciliation        cancellation of stale       documents of prior years.
            statements in violation        checks to reflect the
            of Section 59 of the           correct         monthly
            Manual on the NGAS             balances of the affected
            for LGUs, Volume I,            accounts in the financial
            thereby understating           statements.
            the Cash in Bank and
            Accounts       Payable
            accounts.
2017 AAR;   Several     reconciling    54. The City Accountant         Not Implemented
AO No. 5;   items           totaling       verify the reconciling
Page No.    ₱218,175.17 were not           items and draw a JEV to     Difficulty in retrieving
56          immediately adjusted           adjust      all    valid    the            supporting
            but simply carried over        reconciling       items     documents, especially
            from      one      bank        pursuant to Section 3.3     those pertaining to prior
            reconciliation                 of COA Circular No.         years’ transactions
            statement to the next          96-011 dated October 2,
            contrary to Section 3.3        1996;
            of COA Circular No.
            96-011 dated October       55. Conduct a thorough          Not Implemented
            2, 1996. Moreover,             verification of   the
            some of the bank               dormant bank accounts       Difficulty in retrieving
            accounts maintained            and to effect the           the            supporting
            by the City are already        necessary adjustments;      documents, especially
            dormant and were not           and                         those pertaining to prior
            verified           thus,                                   years’ transactions
            rendering the Cash-In
            Bank account balances      56. Provide copies of the       Not Implemented
            as of December 31,             bank       reconciliation
            2017                  of       statements     to     the   Difficulty in retrieving
            ₱361,125,876.25                depository banks so that    the            supporting
            doubtful            and        any discrepancies noted     documents, especially
            unreliable.                    between the records of      those pertaining to prior
                                           the banks and of the City   years’ transactions
                                           can be immediately
                                           resolved.
2017 AAR; Total appropriations         57. Management expedite         Implemented
AO No. 8; for LDRRMF for CY                the implementation of
          2017 amounting to                all PPAs under the

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