[AG] eCanadian Finances Audit - Day 1155
Day 1,157, 09:45
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by Luke Peters
As I write my report following this, the first audit of eCanada’s finances, I must stress that the complete picture will never be gathered of this country’s finances until there is some more responsibility taken in each organization’s case for recording the incomes for their organizations, whether from the government or an independent source. If expenditure is recorded, but the income that funded it is not, then there will be variances throughout the audit.
This first audit is based on the collective finances of 31 organizations spread through the various agencies of eCanada. 9 organizations are used by the government, 13 are organizations used by the Canadian Armed Forces with one additional organization shared with the government, and the remaining 7 by the Crimson Order
A base-line audit was carried out on Sunday January 16, 2011 (Day 1,153) which pegged the government’s value at 2814.78 gold.
The audit made on Tuesday January 18, 2011 (Day 1,155) pegged the value at 4241,74 less 2080 frozen funds.
The full spreadsheet can be found at https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgUc2gXyNecrdEJ5ZHFwajc1dURCTENpY0dIbnQxR1E&hl=en&authkey=CMG9_OUP
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In total, the value of the eCanadian government’s funds rose by 1426.96 gold in the two days between the baseline audit and the first full audit. This can be explained for two reasons. 1) Organizations that were not known of during the baseline audit were included in this first full audit and 2) Funds frozen due to in-game proposals requiring their use were not considered during the base-line audit.
The big movers in terms of value included the Treasury dropping by 821.33 gold (due to the frozen funds), Canadian National Defence rising by 230.04 gold and Revenue Canada which dropped by 80 gold.
Overall, CAF showed a variance of +17.53 gold, implying that they have 17.53 more gold than was expected. It is likely that this is the result of the Support a Platoon Program making a donation which was not recorded on any spreadsheet available to me. As a result of this, a message has been sent to all government ministers and CAF High Command stressing the importance that they record not only their expenditures but their receipts also.
Closing Comments
As there is no law requiring the release of this information, it has not been possible for me to gather the required information from The Crimson Order to know how much of their funds is government supplied and how much of what is spent is government supplied. Until such information is made available, I have assumed that all funds available in the TCO organizations have been government supplied in this and the base-line audit. When the information is made available these figures will be revised in future audits.
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lol Addy said herd.
All of these kind of records have actually been kept for months. My entire term as MoF actually. My records, which you will find in congress Luke go back to the begining of October.
I was going to say exactly what addy said - herd
~~~subliminal audit message~~~~
We need MOOar in the herd!!!!
For the treasury, yes; but not for the Ministry of Education, Canadian National Defence etc. We can't say that everyone is doing it because you have done it for the treasury.
As I have said, I think, a full audit is always going to be difficult into we can get all of the information available. The spending figure was calculated by myself based on the information supplied.
It is now a case of finding out exactly how much was spent, how much was sent back etc. as we all know that some supplies do get sent back.
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As I have always said, I am not an actual accountant or any person directly involved with finances. And as such, I am open to any input from any person that has any knowledge or opinions on the matter unless they are specifically out to cause trouble that is.
I would be very happy to work with you on this matter if you were interested. The main purpose of this has always been to introduce a form of accountability and later transparency however, to go from a completely closed system to a completely open system is a big step to take which a lot of people want us to do in 1 move.
These random "audits" or checks are designed to see, as best as we can, the real figures that are being used.
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Addy, I invite you to contact me either here, or on the forums to discuss this further if you wish.
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Luke
Luke, if you move to the last sheet in my records you will find a page with every single organization attached to the Canadian Government, with CAD and gold totals for all of them.
TCO is poor. Send gold plox
Audits are a waste of time because there is no accountability. You can impose as many punishments as you want but it's game and if people want to record stuff, they'll record it. If they don't want to, they'll either not do it or make things up.
The only accountability that can be imposed on individuals is votes. They can be kept out of office if the electorate is educated. The AG can provide this education and to that extent there is value in a review or audit provided it is COMMUNICATED.
If the person doesn't have political ambitions, there really isn't any accountability that can be levied upon them.
Thanks for the math.