Unaccounted for funds and inadequate documentation of funds are among several auditing issues that the Education Ministry comes across when dealing with Free Education Grant audit reports from primary schools.
Education Ministry senior auditor Ana Waqanisau said those were among the common issues they have found.
“We have found the lack of financial management skills, irregular banking reconciliation, no budget proposal because of the heads of schools and their DSCS are supposed to be working together in this,” she said.
“Weak record keeping and unaccounted funds, funds that has been expanded but you cannot justify how you are spending the funds.
“Misallocation of funds to non approved expenses and inadequate financial reporting.”
She said these issues were also found in Early Childhood Education centres.
“For ECE’s, there are 500 that are compliant out of 854 schools.”
Ms Waqanisau said to address this the ministry would be conducting training for head teachers moving forward.