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                                                                                                             STATUS OF
                                                                                                         IMPLEMENTATION/
REFERENCE              OBSERVATION                                 RECOMMENDATION
                                                                                                            RESULTS OF
                                                                                                            VALIDATION
2023 AAR    The Cash Local Treasury account showed         6. The Municipal Treasurer and Municipal      Unimplemented
AO No. 5,   an       unreconciled    difference   of          Accountant trace the differences           This was restated in the
page 42     ₱(2,973,348.49) against the cashbook              between the cashbook and General           audit of CY 2024
            balance, inconsistent with Section 143            Ledger of the Cash Local Treasury          accounts as AO No. 5.
            (A.7) of the Local Treasury Operations            account.
            Manual (LTOM), 2nd Edition, thus               7. Management, henceforth, require the
            reliability of the cashbook and General                                                      Unimplemented
                                                              Municipal Treasurer and Municipal
            Ledger (GL) balances could not be relied          Accountant to properly conduct the
            upon.                                             quarterly reconciliation between the
                                                              treasury records and accounting records
                                                              in compliance with Section 143 (A.7) of
                                                              the LTOM.
2023 AAR    The Accounts Payable (A/P) balance of          8. Management       revert     to    the      Unimplemented
AO No. 6,   ₱6,587,995.49 as of December 31, 2023,            unappropriated surplus of the General
page 44     was understated by ₱148,140.50 due to the         Fund the balance of the undocumented
            inclusion of undocumented obligations             A/P with no valid claims pursuant to
            without valid claims, that have remained          Section 98 of PD No. 1445.
            outstanding for more than two years, which
            were not reverted to the unappropriated
            surplus, inconsistent with Section 98 of PD
            No. 1445.
2023 AAR    Unexpended balances of Continuing              9. The Municipal Budget Officer, MPDO,        Unimplemented
AO No. 7,   Appropriations         amounting          to      Municipal Engineer, and Municipal          Management           had
page 45     ₱22,776,284.23 for various projects,              Accountant review and monitor the          indicated in their AAPSI
            programs, and activities (PPAs) remained          balances      of      the     continuing   that they had already
            unutilized, inconsistent with Section 5.0 of      appropriations under the 20% DF, which     initially implemented the
            the DILG-DBM Joint Memorandum                     shall be the basis for the Local Finance   recommendation.
            Circular No. 2017-1 dated February 22,            Committee to recommend to the Local
            2017 and Section 322 of Republic Act              Chief Executive the reversion of those
            (RA) No. 7160, thereby depriving the              pertaining to completed projects and
            public of timely benefits from the                those no longer needed so that the funds
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