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AGSA Approach to mSCOA Reform: Strengthening South Africa's Governance

The Auditor-General of South Africa shares a three-fold approach towards mSCOA reforms to enhance local government accountability and oversight in alignment with IT controls and systems.

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AGSA Approach to mSCOA Reform: Strengthening South Africa's Governance

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  1. AGSA APPROACH TO mSCOA REFORM 9 March 2017

  2. Reputation promise/mission The Auditor-General of South Africa has a constitutional mandate and, as the Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) of South Africa, it exists to strengthen our country’s democracy by enabling oversight, accountability and governance in the public sector through auditing, thereby building public confidence.

  3. Purpose This purpose of this presentation is to share the AGSA approach towards the mSCOA reforms.

  4. We have adopted the following three-fold approach in order to support and respond to the mSCOA for local government reform:

  5. Current status of IT in South Africa 2013-14 MFMA IT governance Security management Overall status of information technology controls • Current state of IT • Majority of municipalities do not have adequate controls designed across major focus areas. • There is a lack of adequately qualified staff to design these controls. • We must consider the impact of mSCOA on Municipalities with no IT controls. • Most municipalities do not have adequate business processes mapped to be aligned to mSCOA. User access management IT service continuity

  6. Our audits – after pilot phase • Audit process remains the same • Data conversion and AFS audit • During normal financial audit • Increased risk to be considered for opening balances • Audit AFS against the GRAP standards

  7. Our audits – before implementation • Basic mSCOA readiness assessments were performed 2015-16

  8. In conclusion • Municipalities should review data sets individually. The review must include, scrutinising the information to ensure that it is complete, correct and securely stored; • Keep and maintain a document trail of the ‘data purification process’; • Keep and maintain a record of all amendments and updates made to information. These records have to be signed by a person authorised to do so in the municipality’s formal delegations; and • The closing balances of the municipality’s system(s) before converting to mSCOA, together with a detailed reconciliation with the take on balances of the mSCOA aligned system, duly reviewed and authorised, also needs to be kept. • Robust monitoring of implementation plans.

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