Dickens Turyahabwe, of Dickson Associate certified Accountants, who carried out the Audit said that the missing of the financial records had caused a difference in the accounts worth Shs, 867m that was treated as an expense causing a 79% decline in profit after Tax.
An Audit of the Exodus SACCO, the Uganda police force savings and
credit cooperative society has failed to trace books of accounts for the past
six years.
This was revealed on Friday by the SACCO Chairperson, Henry Kalulu
during the Annual General Meeting. The missing financial records date from 2007
when the bank was started to 2012.
The SACCO has of recent been characterized by lack of accountability and
delayed access to savings and loans by its members.
Following the irregularities, Kalulu, reported to the State Minister for
Cooperatives, Fredrick Gume Ngobi, seeking advice. The Minister would later
order for an Audit to have the reconstruction of all financial statements of
the SACCO.
Kalulu told members that an audit was conducted by the Auditors from Dickson
Associates but no single financial record could be traced.
He says that the failure to have the records have affected the financial
position of the SACCO to the extent that they are operating without interests
and having imbalances in the ledgers and schedules.
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Dickens Turyahabwe, of Dickson Associate, certified Accountants,
who carried out the audit said that the missing financial records had caused a
difference in the accounts worth 867 million shillings that was treated as an
expense causing a 79% decline in profit after Tax.
//Cue in……. “There was an imbalance
// Cue out... Ledgers and Schedules are in balance”.
Speaking at the Annual General Meeting, the State Minister for Cooperatives,
Fredrick Gume Ngobi, asked SACCO members to pass by-laws that will manage the
operations of the SACCO.
