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26 January 2022
External AUDIT: AUDIT RESULTS REPORT
(Executive Director: Resources)
1 PURPOSE OF REPORT
1.1 This report advises Members of a report by the Council’s external auditor summarising the work carried out to discharge their statutory audit responsibilities.
2 SUPPORTING INFORMATION
2.1 The Code of Audit Practice requires the external auditor to provide a summary of the work they carried out to discharge their statutory audit responsibilities to ‘those charged with governance’. It is also a requirement that this summary be considered ahead of the signing of the accounts by the external auditor, which must be no later than 30 September 2021.
2.2 It was not possible to meet the 30 September deadline due to delays in the completion of the Royal County of Berkshire Pension Fund by Deloitte LLP for the 2019/20 accounts. Now that the detailed audit work is nearing completion, the external auditor has issued a report. Andrew Brittain of Ernst & Young will be at the meeting to present the report and answer queries. The report is attached.
Contacts for further information
Stuart McKellar – 01344 352180
Stuart.mckellar@bracknell-forest.gov.uk
Arthur Parker – 01344 352158
Arthur.parker@bracknell-forest.gov.uk