AGSA Audit Results

Theme: Governance Date Added: 2018-11-20

Resource Type

Data Assets

PDF XLSX

What is it?

Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) provides detailed results for audits conducted on on all government departments, public entities, municipalities and public institutions.

Key Points

  • Annual MFMA, PFMA and special reports
  • Audit outcomes and controls
  • Financial health and supply chain management
  • Detailed results data available as XLSX annexures

Why is it Important?

AGSA performs financial and performance audits (or checks) on all public entities in South Africa to ensure that your taxes are being used correctly, and in a way that impacts the lives of our people. This is critical for reducing wasteful spending and preventing corruption.

How can it be accessed and used?

There are three report sections and associated datasets on the AGSA reporting page.

  1. PFMA section contains audit reports on the financial and performance management of national and provincial departments and public entities.
  2. MFMA section, contains similar for municipal entities, including district and metropolitan municipalities.
  3. Special Audit Reports section contains information on ad-hoc investigations.

In each section, the reports analyse the aggregate audit findings, but you can view the underlying results published in Annexures as XLSX spreadsheets.

Once you have looked at the reports or detailed findings, you may want to compare different provinces or municipalities, or follow audit trends over 3 or 5 years to see whether performance is improving or getting worse. You can also see how audit findings relate to income and expenditure information for your local government through Municipal Money or raise issues with your councillor or MP through People's Assembly.

PFMA 2016 - 2017 (Provincial and National Entities)

Location: South Africa
Format: XLSX
Year: 2017Last Checked:None
Online: Access URL
Column/
File Names:
  • Audit opinion: From "Unqualified with no findings" (good) to "Disclaimed with findings" (bad)
  • Financial statement: From "No unfavourable indicators" (good) to "Material unfavourable indicators" (bad)
  • Unauthorised expenditure Amount R (m): Value of unauthorised spending

MFMA 2016 - 2017 (Municipal Entities)

Location: South Africa
Format: XLSX
Year: 2017Last Checked:None
Online: Access URL
Column/
File Names:
  • Audit opinion: From "Unqualified with no findings" (good) to "Disclaimed with findings" (bad)
  • Financial statement: From "No unfavourable indicators" (good) to "Material unfavourable indicators" (bad)
  • Unauthorised expenditure Amount R (m): Value of unauthorised spending
  • finance
  • spending
  • income
  • monitoring

Resource contact name:Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA)

Creation or start date:2018-11-20

Resource contact updated at:2018-12-14

Spatial coverage  South Africa http://www.geonames.org/953987/south-africa.html

Where else has the resource been used?

Year Project Name::
2018 Woes of South African Cities' Finances Laid Bare in Charts
2017 Administration of the Public Finance Management Act 1999 in the North West Provincial Administration in South Africa
2016 Exploring corruption in the South African health sector
Parent ORG:

Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA)

About This Organisation

The AGSA is a Chapter 9 institution and the supreme audit institution (SAI) of South Africa, responsible for auditing and reporting on how the government is spending the South African taxpayers’ money.