Report 4: 2017

Controls Over Purchasing Cards

What did we find?

No agency in our sample was rated as ‘good’ across all 3 of our lines of enquiry with all 9 agencies needing to improve some aspects of their policies and/or practices for managing purchasing cards. Department of Culture and the Arts, which was also included in our 2014 audit, had improved its policies and systems since that audit.

Table 1 - Agency ratings against our criteria

What we found:

  • Most agencies need to improve their policies and administrative systems – read more
  • Only Department of Education Services was adequately managing the use of purchasing cards – read more
  • Most agencies are monitoring purchasing card use – read more

 

 

 

 

Page last updated: April 11, 2017

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