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2020/21 ACCOUNTS

Meeting: 25/11/2021 - Accounts and Audit Committee (Item 30)

2020/21 ACCOUNTS

To consider a report of the Director of Finance and Systems.

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Minutes:

In close connection with the foregoing item, the Director of Finance and Systems submitted a report which presented the Council’s Final Accounts for 2021 in their latest form. The Committee received the redrafted Final Accounts for 2020/21, as they currently stand at the time of the Committee report distribution and pending any changes prior to the completion of the audit which was expected imminently, as advised. Amendments made from the draft had been highlighted and accommodated changes currently agreed with the external auditors during their audit. Thanks were accorded to the Finance team and to the auditor, with the Director of Finance and Systems welcoming the envisaged unqualified audit opinion.

 

As formal signature of the accounts remained premature, delegated authority was sought from the Committee to permit this to be done as soon as the auditor’s opinion had been confirmed.

 

RESOLVED –

 

(1)      That, following review, the Accounts as they currently stand be noted.

 

(2)      That Authority be delegated to the Chair of Accounts and Audit Committee and the Director of Finance and Systems to approve the Final Accounts for 2020/21 once the auditor has issued their final opinion.