The Council's Responsibilities

The Council is required:

• to make arrangements for the proper administration of its financial affairs and to ensure that one of its officers has the responsibility for the administration of those affairs. In this case, the responsible officer is the Director of Finance and Corporate Services
• to manage its affairs in order to generate an economic, efficient and effective use of resources and to safeguard its assets

The Responsibilities of the Director of Finance & Corporate Services

The Director of Finance & Corporate Services is ultimately responsible for the preparation of the Council’s Statement of Accounts, which in terms of the Code of Practice on Local Authority Accounting in the United Kingdom 2023/24 (“the Code”), is required to present fairly the financial position of the Council at the accounting date and of its income and expenditure for the year ended 31 March 2024. In preparing the Statement of Accounts, the Director of Finance & Corporate Services has:

• selected suitable accounting policies and applied them consistently
• made judgements and estimates that were reasonable and prudent
• complied with the Code
• kept proper accounting records which were up to date
• taken reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities