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A Report on The Implementation Status of Prior State Auditor’s Office Recommendations

February 2018

Summary Analysis

The State Auditor’s Office has compiled the following data to provide information regarding the implementation status of recommendations made in prior audit reports.

From September 1, 2013, through June 30, 2016, the State Auditor’s Office issued 52 performance audit reports to state agencies and higher education institutions that contained 703 recommendations. Specifically, in those audit reports, the State Auditor’s Office made recommendations to state agencies and higher education institutions in 237 report chapters.

For the purpose of this project, auditors followed up on the implementation status of the recommendations made in 11 report chapters for which the entities reported the recommendation(s) as fully implemented.

Auditors verified that the recommendations in 10 (91 percent) of those 11 report chapters were fully implemented. However, auditors determined that the recommendation in one report chapter tested was substantially implemented. That recommendation was addressed to the Parks and Wildlife Department.

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Table 1 shows the recommendations on which auditors followed up and their implementation status. Those recommendations were addressed to the Texas Public Finance Authority, Commission on the Arts, Health and Human Services Commission, Department of Family and Protective Services, Department of State Health Services, Office of Court Administration, Commission on Environmental Quality, Parks and Wildlife Department, Texas Workforce Commission, and Board of Professional Land Surveying. Please note that the recommendations were grouped at the chapter or subchapter level as presented in the original audit reports. As a result, for Table 1, some recommendations have multiple parts. For purposes of this report, auditors assigned letters to recommendations with multiple parts in Table 1.

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In 52 performance audit reports to state agencies and higher education institutions issued from September 1, 2013, through June 30, 2016, the State Auditor’s Office made recommendations to state agencies and higher education institutions in 237 report chapters. Of those, the audited entities self-reported that they fully implemented the recommendations in 187 (79 percent) chapters; that they had substantially implemented the recommendations in 22 (9 percent) chapters; and that implementation was incomplete or ongoing for the recommendations in 28 (12 percent) chapters.

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Self-reported Implementation Status of State Auditor’s Office Recommendations by Chapter in Reports Issued from September 1, 2013, through June 30, 2016.

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Self-reported Implementation Status of Recommendations by Fiscal Year.

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