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

July 2022

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, 2018, through June 30, 2021, the State Auditor’s Office released 60 performance audit reports to state agencies and higher education institutions that contained 547 recommendations. The audited entities reported that 465 (85.0 percent) recommendations were fully implemented, 16 (2.9 percent) were substantially implemented, 50 (9.1 percent) had an incomplete or ongoing implementation, and 16 (2.9 percent) were not implemented.

For the purposes of this project, auditors followed up on 18 recommendations made in report chapters rated either Priority or High in the 5 reports selected and made the following determinations:

  • Fifteen (83.3 percent) of the recommendations were fully implemented.
  • One (5.6 percent) of the recommendations was substantially implemented.
  • Two (11.1 percent) of the recommendations were incomplete or ongoing.
Auditors also followed up on recommendations related to information technology in four confidential reports. However, to minimize the risks associated with public disclosure, auditors reported the follow-up results on those recommendations separately to the management of the four entities associated with those reports.

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Auditors followed up on 18 recommendations that state agencies and higher education institutions self-reported as fully implemented and determined levels of implementation. These recommendations were issued to the Department of Housing and Community Affairs, Department of Information Resources, Facilities Commission, School for the Deaf, and The University of Texas System Administration. For the 18 recommendations selected, auditors determined: fifteen (83.3 percent) of the recommendations were fully implemented; one (5.6 percent) of the recommendations was substantially implemented, and two (11.1 percent) of the recommendations had incomplete or ongoing implementation.

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The State Auditor’s Office made 547 recommendations to state agencies and higher education institutions in 60 performance audit reports to state agencies and higher education institutions released from September 1, 2018, through June 30, 2021. The audited entities reported that 465 (85.0 percent) recommendations were fully implemented, 16 (2.9 percent) were substantially implemented, 50 (9.1 percent) had an incomplete or ongoing implementation, and 16 (2.9 percent) were not implemented.

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