Auditor General Reports Highlight A Need For Stronger Internal Controls By School Boards

Managing risk is an important component of school board work.  Comments from recent Auditor Generals included below demonstrate the need to create and implement risk management processes over the internal controls used by school jurisdictions. In light of this commentary, your school jurisdiction may wish to audit its internal control processes to ensure they are working and to improve them as required.

November 2018 Report of Alberta's Auditor General

for the 2018 fiscal year to execute Minister of Education's expectations.

Alberta's Auditor General found that the Department of Education failed to consistently follow its own processes for monitoring, assessing, and reporting on school jurisdictions' accumulated operating reserves and failed to provide the Auditor General with complete formal documentation of its processes.