Issue - meetings

The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director, Enterprise, Community and Resources, which provided Members with a proposed response to the annual letter to the Board from Grant Thornton, the Council’s external auditors, regarding their year-end audit of accounts work.

The Board was advised that International Auditing Standards required the Council’s external auditors, Grant Thornton, to raise those charged with governance (i.e. the Business Efficiency Board), matters that may affect the Council’s financial statements and to document the Board’s response.

The Board was further advised that Appendix 1 attached to the report, presented a proposed response to a number of questions contained in the letters from Grant Thornton to the Chair of the Board. Grant Thornton representatives attended the meeting to discuss further questions with Board Members.

RESOLVED: That the proposed response to the Council’s external auditors, shown in Appendix 1 attached to the report, be approved.