Department of Defence Annual Report 2008-2009

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REPORT OF THE ACCOUNTING OFFICER
for the year ended 31 March 2009 (continued)
11.4 Accounting and Reporting in terms of GRAP
As mentioned in my report for the previous nancial year the DOD still expensed assets at
date of purchase in terms of cash based accounting and thereafter account for assets in terms
of item accounting. In spite of progress on asset management and accounting, as described
above, the DOD is still not in a position to disclose complete and accurate values for the
movement of assets during the nancial year 2008/2009. The following required disclosure
notes on assets are thus omitted from the nancial statements to this report.
Movable tangible capital assets.
Movable intangible capital assets.
Immovable tangible capital assets.
12. Events after the reporting date
No events are reported.
13. Performance information
Performance information is described in the Annual Report.
14. SCOPA Resolutions and addressing prior audit ndings
14.1 The DOD has not yet appeared before SCOPA on its nancial year 2007/2008 Annual
Report and no resolutions have been adopted on the DOD’s 07/08 nancial statements. The
actions indicated in the table below also addresses the Report of the Auditor-General for
FY 2007/2008.
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14.2 The SCOPA Hearing on the DOD’s nancial year 2006/2007 Auditor-General Report was
held on 21 November 2007 and the FY 2006/2007 SCOPA Resolutions were adopted on 8
February 2008 by Parliament. The DOD did submit a response to SCOPA dated 13 February
2008 on certain issues raised during the hearing on 21 November 2007. The DOD submitted
the action plans on the nancial year 2006/2007 SCOPA Resolutions to Parliament on 9 June
2008. The detailed feedback in the table below reects progress made with the implementation
of these action plans:
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