Legitimacy of Civil Service Commission's assets questionable: audit report

Last year's financial report of Civil Service Commission (CSC) shows that the legitimacy of the commission's assets 'is questionable'.

The audit report of 2017 released with Auditor General Hassan Ziyath's signature, said that there is a difference of MVR 10,005,230 (Ten million five thousand two hundred and thirty) between the amounts spent on furniture and equipment as mentioned in other details of CSC's asset statements, and the amounts spent on furniture, machinery and equipment in the commission's asset register.

The audit report also highlighted that since CSC's asset register did not specify codes according to the charts of accounts, the difference in value that comes from the codes also remain unidentified.

The report states that since the commission's asset register has not been reconciled with asset statements, the legitimacy of the amounts mentioned in CSC's financial statement remains questionable.

Recommendations made by Auditor General's (AG) Office include bringing changes to the amounts after identifying the reasons behind the aforementioned difference and to include the expenditures taken out of the government's capital budget, and other in-kind assets and services under the government's assets.

Additionally, AG recommended the commission to send the details of the prices of the assets noted in the asset register to Ministry of Finance and Treasury so that the ministry can add it to their SEP system.