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                                                                                                                                         Status of
Ref.             Audit Observation                        Audit Recommendation                   Management Comment/Action
                                                                                                                                      Implementation
     by the audit team, but those who signed       government pursuant to a Notice of            check the logbook for any issuance
     the Acceptance and Inspection Report          Disallowance to be issued by the audit        before salary withholding.
     could provide a plausible explanation         team.
     but admitted that they signed the AIR
     without counting or examining the 63. We recommended further that henceforth                Management had not taken any              Not
     items delivered, resulting to substantial     the assigned inspectors are required to       action.                               Implemented
     loss to the government considering the        strictly perform their assigned duties and
     amount of purchases that have been            responsibilities in the acceptance and
     already been made by the municipality.        inspection of purchases, and that the
                                                   municipality clearly establish and define
                                                   each personnel’s responsibility for
                                                   government         property,     including
                                                   custodianship thereof.
AAR Funds transferred to other LGUs and to 64. We recommended that the Municipal                 The Due to NGA account had been           Not
2018 national government agencies (NGAs)           Accountant review the 2006 and prior          partially    reconciled as   of       Implemented
     amounting to ₱257,768.58 and                  years’ journals and ledgers to identify the   December 31, 2023. Management
     ₱319,724.09, respectively, recorded           local government units and national           still had to complete the
     under the account Due From Other              government agencies to whom the               reconciliation.
     LGUs and Due from NGAs were not               amounts had been transferred and to
     properly recorded in subsidiary ledgers       demand liquidation thereof. If these
     nor was the liquidation thereof               efforts prove futile, the municipality may
     followed up, thus have lain dormant           request the write-off of the receivables in
     since their recognition prior to 2006         accordance with COA Circular No. 2016-
     while the debtors thereof could not be        005 dated December 19, 2016.
     identified, adversely affecting the
     fairness of presentation of assets in the 65. We further recommended that henceforth,       Management had not taken any
     financial statements.                         the Municipal Accountant faithfully           action.                                   Not
                                                   maintain subsidiary ledgers for all control                                         Implemented
                                                   accounts as required under the Manual on
                                                   NGAs.
AAR The project Upscaling of the Barangay 66. We recommended that the LGU officials              Management still had to wait for          Not
2018 Sagip-Saka (Conservation Farming              request the Department of Agriculture,        one barangay to complete its          Implemented
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