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Any Auditors around ?

  • 23-11-2013 12:20am
    #1
    Twickers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭


    With all the carry on with Hospital CEO salaries etc. I ask myself do the Government have any Independent Auditors - ones who would not be "bullied" by a Minister.


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  • #2
    srsly78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,157 ✭✭✭srsly78


    Don't they get in the big accountancy firms to do it? Costs a fortune.


  • #3
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    There's the C&AG's office and they contract in auditors - but the audits are really just checking that money was spent properly and for the intended purpose.

    They don't audit against government policy.

    I think the easiest thing to do is to take the money they paid the CEOs out of their allocation next year and leave the respective boards to sort it out - see if they can be as clever in the public interest as they were in their CEO's interest.


  • #4
    creedp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,965 ✭✭✭creedp


    Twickers wrote: »
    With all the carry on with Hospital CEO salaries etc. I ask myself do the Government have any Independent Auditors - ones who would not be "bullied" by a Minister.


    Maybe they should use the auditors used by Anglo .. those boys would'nt bend the knee


  • #5
    srsly78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,157 ✭✭✭srsly78


    The auditors that did Greece's books are better I hear.


  • #6
    camel jockey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭camel jockey


    srsly78 wrote: »
    The auditors that did Greece's books are better I hear.

    The ones that prepared the books in advance of them being allowed into the Euro did a good job alright.


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  • #7
    PRAF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭PRAF


    Twickers wrote: »
    With all the carry on with Hospital CEO salaries etc. I ask myself do the Government have any Independent Auditors - ones who would not be "bullied" by a Minister.

    Yes there are, the internal auditors are the ones who uncovered this mess in the first place. The c&ag also does a good job by all accounts. We need more of it


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