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Show AUDITING SYSTEM Cost City a Large Sum, but Is Found .to Have Many Defects. Radical changes in the present auditing audit-ing system, for tho installation of which tho city paid some 525,01)0 several years ago, la being seriously contemplated by tho city commisnloncro. It ic declared that tho costly system lias proven defective de-fective at many pninLi, and is so com-borsomo com-borsomo and Inflexible in tbo handling of certain departmental affairs that it Is practically Impossible to determine tho condi lions of tho various segregated accounts, ac-counts, without undertaking the proverbial prover-bial bunt for tho needle in tho haystack. hay-stack. A remedy for theso defects in bolng looked for, nnd although no specific system sys-tem has been considered, It Is probable that a change will be made within tho next few mouths. Commissioner Georgo D. Keyser has been in conference wltb several expert auditors recently and liaa taken up the matter with tbo other commissioners, com-missioners, Including H. "V7. TAwrcnce, head of the finance department, under which tho auditing department come3. The complaint against tho present system sys-tem Is general. It is said, and no opposition oppo-sition to a change .provided a bettor Hj'stem can be determined upon, la expected. ex-pected. One of the chief defects of the present. pres-ent. Hj'stem lg said to lie In tho complexity complex-ity that surrounds tbo handling of many Items of expense aud receipts. Sometimes Some-times several checks have to bo issued, it is declared, to cover tho cost of ono item. A firm of npcclal auditors is now engaged en-gaged in the annual auditing of the city department and until that work in concluded con-cluded It Is not probable that any definite def-inite steps will be taken towardB the contemplated con-templated change. These auditors aro expected ex-pected to make recommendations cover-Ins cover-Ins whatever defects aro discovered In going over tbe books of each department. |