WARNING - By their nature, text files cannot include scanned images and tables. The process of converting documents to text only, can cause formatting changes and misinterpretation of the contents can sometimes result. Wherever possible you should refer to the pdf version of this document. CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY Audit Committee Paper 2 26/06/09 CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY FOR DECISION Title: INTERNAL AUDIT: FOLLOW UP OF PRIOR YEAR RECOMMENDATIONS Prepared by: DAVID CAMERON, HEAD of CORPORATE SERVICES LISA MacDONALD, DELOITTE Purpose To present the internal auditors follow up report on their prior year recommendations to the Audit Committee. Recommendations The Committee is asked to: a) Consider the internal auditor’s follow up report on their prior year recommendations; b) Agree the follow up report and note outstanding work highlighted in the report; c) Note that the future schedule of outstanding recommendations will be amended to remove those recommendations now highlighted as complete, and will be presented to the next meeting of the Committee. Executive Summary The Audit Committee normally considers a schedule of outstanding audit recommendations as an information papers presented as a standing item to each meeting. The Authority’s internal auditors have now undertaken a formal review of their recommendations from previous audits, and the results of this are set out in their report at Annex 1 to this paper. Following consideration of the report by the Committee, the standard schedule of outstanding recommendations will be amended to remove those recommendations now highlighted as complete, and will be presented to the next meeting of the Committee.