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                                                                                  Annex A


                                                                        Status of
  Ref.        Observation              Recommendation           Implementation/Results
                                                                     of Validation
AAR       Disclosures in the        4. The          Municipal Unimplemented
2023,     Notes to Financial           Accountant        revise
AO no.    Statements on the            the Notes to the The                     Municipal
2, page   “Loans Payable –             Financial Statements Accountant has             not
27        Domestic” account            to     include       the submitted any financial
          balance             of       principal       amount, statements.
          ₱227,575,364.56 are          interest rate, maturity
          incomplete,           a      date, amount for each
          departure from the           purpose, and interest
          fair      presentation       expense of the Loans
          requirement     under        Payable – Domestic
          the      International       account, to properly
          Public         Sector        inform the users of
          Accounting                   the            financial
          Standards (IPSAS),           statements,          the
          thus affecting the           financial
          usefulness of the            performance of the
          financial information        Municipal
          on loans to its users,       Government,
          especially          its      particularly          in
          constituents.                financial
                                       management
AAR     The liquidating and         5. The          Municipal Implemented
2023,   disbursing officers            Treasurer ensure that
AO no.  had     custody    of          the                 cash Bonds of AOs now cover
3, page collections and cash           accountabilities of their                respective
28      advances         that          AOs         are       in accountabilities.
        exceeded          the          accordance with their
and     maximum                        existing         bonds,
        accountability                 pursuant to Treasury
AAR     covered by their               Circular No. 02-
2022,   bonds. This goes               2019.
AO no. against Section 305          6. Management review Implemented
4, page (f) of Republic Act            and evaluate the
31      (RA) No. 7160 and              maximum                  Management had already
        Treasury     Circular          accountabilities of reviewed the maximum
        No. 02-2019, thus              AOs and apply for an accountabilities of AOs
        increasing        the          increase      in     the and applied for the
        likelihood that the            amount of bond, appropriate bonds.
        government may not             when necessary, in