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                                                                             Status of
Reference         Observation            Recommendations                 Implementation/
                                                                        Result of Validation
            incoming LCE might            in     the       financial
            not have been done.           statements.

2015 AAR; The City reimbursed         61. The LCE submit travel         Not Implemented
AO No. 3; the LCE of his                  orders for his travels
Page No.  expenses for various            listed in Annex A to the      Travel orders had been
48        travels outside of the          audit      team     and       requested     from     the
          province        totaling        henceforth,      secure       Provincial Governor to
          ₱171,777.09         even        permission from the           support     the    travels
          without the approved            Provincial     Governor       outside the province. The
          travel orders issued by         every time he travels         request had not been
          the          Provincial         outside the Province of       acted upon yet.
          Governor contrary to            Negros          Oriental
          Section 96(b) of RA             pursuant to Section
          No. 7160, resulting in          96(b) of RA No. 7160.
          improper disbursement
          of funds.
2014 AAR; The      City      spent    62. Management to require         Not Implemented
AO No. 4; ₱1,125,112.85 from              the City Accountant,
Page No. the 5% LDRRMF                    Budget Officer, City          The audit team is still
25        without observing the           Treasurer and all other       locating     the     audit
          pertinent provisions of         officials responsible for     working papers of the
          RA No. 10121 and                the improper charges          previous audit team, for
          other           existing        against        the      5%    proper verification.
          regulations,       thus,        LDRRMF to refund the
          resulting to irregular          amount             totaling
          expenditures.                   ₱1,125,112.85          and
                                          henceforth, to adhere
                                          strictly to the provisions
                                          of RA No. 10121 and
                                          DILG        Memorandum
                                          Circular 2012-73 in the
                                          use of the 5% LDRRMF
                                          to       avoid        audit
                                          disallowance.
2012 AAR;   The agency did not        63. Management                    Not Implemented
AO No. 1;   effectively     monitor       immediately require the
Page No.    and       appropriately       City Accountant to
21          undertake safeguards          prioritize              the   As of December 31,
            against loss or wastage       reconciliation         and    2024, ₱1.56M were
            and      ensure     the       substantiation of the         reconciled and cleared.
            existence            of       bank accounts which           Reconciliation        was
            ₱3,042,511.77                 have         not      been    difficult      due      to
            included in its Cash in       confirmed        by     the   unavailability          of
            Bank       –      Local       depository banks.             documents and records,
            Currency, Current and                                       specifically those items
            Savings Accounts (111                                       pertaining to prior years.
            and 112) by not
            preparing           the
            necessary          bank

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