Nether Alderley Parish Council

NOTICE OF PUBLIC RIGHTS AND PUBLICATION
OF UNAUDITED ANNUAL GOVERNANCE &
ACCOUNTABILITY RETURN

Accounts for the Year Ended 31st March 2024
Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 Sections 26 and 27
The Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/234

The notices for the Exercise of Public Rights in relation to the Parish Council’s unaudited Annual Governance and Accountability Return for the financial year 2023/24 can be found here

The unaudited Annual Governance and Accountability Return for 2023/24:

Section 1 can be found here

Section 2 can be found here

Comparison of End of Year Accounts 2022/23 with 2023/24 can be found here

Bank reconciliation and reserves balance 2023/24 can be found  here

Explanation of Account Variances  2023/24 can be found here.

The notice for Conclusion of Audit and audited Annual Return for the financial year 2023/24 and accounting records for the financial year 2023/24 are currently unavailable until the external audit has been completed.

1. Date of announcement: Saturday 1st June 2024
2. Each year the smaller authority’s Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR) needs to be reviewed by an external auditor appointed by Smaller Authorities’ Audit Appointments Ltd. The unaudited AGAR has been published with this notice. As it has yet to be reviewed by the appointed auditor, it is subject to change as a result of that review.
Any person interested has the right to inspect and make copies of the accounting records for the
financial year to which the audit relates and all books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers, receipts and other documents relating to those records must be made available for inspection by any person interested. For the year ended 31 March 2024, these documents will be available on reasonable notice by application to:
i) David Naylor (Clerk/RFO)
C/o 26 Barnside Way, Tytherington, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 2TZ
ii) Cllr. Angela Farrell (Chairman)
Wyche Barn, Nursery Lane, Nether Alderley, Cheshire SK10 4TX
commencing on: Monday 3rd June 2024 and ending on: Friday 12th July 2024
3. Local government electors and their representatives also have:
• The opportunity to question the appointed auditor about the accounting records; and
• The right to make an objection which concerns a matter in respect of which the appointed auditor could either make a public interest report or apply to the court for a declaration that an item of account is unlawful. Written notice of an objection must first be given to the auditor and a copy sent to the smaller authority.
The appointed auditor can be contacted at the address in paragraph 4 below for this purpose between the above dates only.
4. The smaller authority’s AGAR is subject to review by the appointed auditor under the provisions of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014, the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 and the NAO’s Code of Audit Practice 2015. The appointed auditor is:
PKF Littlejohn LLP (Ref: SBA Team)
15 Westferry Circus
Canary Wharf
London E14 4HD
(sba@pkf-l.com)
5. This announcement is made by: Mr David Naylor (Clerk/RFO