Allowance organizations founded by the Ministry of Education kept unconvincing accounts
Press Release – May 20, 2009
From September 2008 to February 2009, auditors from the Supreme Audit Office (SAO) audited the Ministry of Education and its administration of the state budget chapter in 2007 as well as the allowance organizations founded by the Ministry of Education and their finance management. According to the auditors, the Ministry failed to evaluate or agree to depreciation plans while setting down the operating benefits of the audited organizations.
Among the audited bodies were Jan Deyl Academy of music and secondary school for visually impaired; the National Institute for Children and Youth of the Ministry of Education; Jaroslav Ježek School – nursery, elementary school and project school for visually impaired (since February 28, 2008, the school changed its name for Jaroslav Ježek School – nursery, elementary school, project school and elementary art school for visually impaired); and the Facility for Children of Foreign Nationals – diagnostic facility, children´s home with school, educational institute, educational care centre, primary and special school.
In 2007, the Ministry failed to control all of the selected allowance organizations in spite of the facts that independent controls should have substituted for internal audit units and that the Ministry submitted a complaint having performed a control of one of the organizations in 2006. From 2001 to 2008, the Ministry failed to obtain the expenditures’ account, or to reclaim finances amounting to almost CZK 20 million, which had been provided to the National Institute for Children and Youth in 2000.
The auditors identified many shortcomings in the fields of the internal auditing and accounting systems, management of the property and liabilities, management of the funds, showing expenses and profits, which influenced operating results of the organizations, and stocktaking by the end of 2007. “All the shortcomings arise from the fact that the inventories were deficient and unconvincing. Auditors concluded that all the organization failed to provide correct accounts in 2007. One of them has been keeping accounts incorrectly since its establishment in 2003“ said president of the SAO František Dohnal.
The auditing operation was included into the 2008 Audit Plan of the SAO under No. 08/28. Jaromíra Steidlová, Member of the SAO Board, controlled the operation and prepared the audit report as well.
Radka Burketová
Press Speaker
Supreme Audit Office