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A Report on the Implementation Status of Prior State Auditor’s Office Recommendations

February 2019

Summary Analysis

The State Auditor’s Office has compiled data to provide information regarding the implementation status of recommendations made in prior audit reports.

Auditors selected 29 recommendations from within 10 report chapters or subchapters for which the entities reported the recommendations as fully implemented. Those recommendations were selected from State Auditor’s Office reports issued between June 30, 2015 and June 30, 2017. Auditors verified that 27 (93 percent) of 29 recommendations were fully implemented. However, auditors determined that 2 (7 percent) of those 29 recommendations were incomplete or ongoing.

From September 1, 2014, through June 30, 2018, the State Auditor’s Office issued 89 performance audit reports to state agencies and higher education institutions that contained 336 chapters with corresponding recommendations. Of those, the audited entities self-reported that they had fully implemented the recommendations in 299 (89 percent) chapters; that they had substantially implemented the recommendations in 20 (6 percent) chapters; and that implementation was incomplete or ongoing for the recommendations in 17 (5 percent) chapters.

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Table 1 shows the recommendations on which auditors followed up and their implementation status. Those recommendations were addressed to the Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, Office of the Attorney General, Department of State Health Services, School for the Deaf, General Land Office, Water Development Board, and Department of Motor Vehicles.

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In 89 performance audit reports to state agencies and higher education institutions issued from September 1, 2014 through June 30, 2018, the State Auditor’s Office made recommendations to state agencies and higher education institutions in 336 report chapters. Of those, the audited entities self-reported that they fully implemented the recommendations in 299 (89 percent) chapters, that they had substantially implemented the recommendations in 20 (6 percent) chapters, and that implementation was incomplete or ongoing for the recommendations in 17 (5 percent) chapters.

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