Ministry of Education poorly executed granting duties
Press Release – February 4, 2008
Auditors from the Supreme Audit Office (SAO) aimed at Ministry of Education and its management of the state property when granting educational facilities intended for reformative or protecting training and educational institutions for social prevention and the use of the financial resources.
The audited period extended from 2005 to 2006 and included associated data from the previous and following time. The audited bodies were Ministry of Education and several selected allowance organizations.
Out of the 66 institutions for education and for reformative or protecting training and educational institutions for social prevention, which were given grants worth over CZK 1,6 billion in 2005 and over CZK 1,8 billion in 2006, the audit took into account 22 educational facilities and institutions for social precaution. The total amount of financial resources audited by the SAO reached over CZK 1,2 billion.
In 2005 and 2006, 13 of the audited institutions incorrectly booked their properties and misrepresented the assets in their final accounts. “Therefore, their accountancy violated the accountancy law. The ministry later took the incorrect data into the aggregate balance that included all allowance organizations – this summary is a compartment of the ministry’s final account. Hence, the final account of the state budget chapter was distorted in 2005 and 2006,“ said František Dohnal, president of the SAO.
“The audit of the granted financial resources revealed only minor defects, for example several legal enactments had been disobeyed in some detail. An unfortunate exception is the Educational Institute and School Dining-Room in Nová Role, which disobeyed the budgetary rules when misrepresenting CZK 1 million,“ said Dohnal.
The auditing operation was included into the 2007 Audit Plan of the SAO under No. 07/09. Jan Holeček, Member of the SAO, controlled the operation and drew up the audit report as well.
Radka Burketová
Press Speaker
Supreme Audit Office