One in three Scottish councils improve financial reporting
Scottish councils have made ‘some improvement’ to transparency in financial reporting, Audit Scotland report shows.
Nine of the 32 Scotland councils reported an improvement in the quality of their management commentary, but this was not reconciled to the financial performance in the accounts which showed high levels of debt, according to Audit Scotland’s Local government in Scotland financial overview for 2018-19.
Read more at the Accountancy Daily.
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