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Lack of a cost conscious culture has allowed those in govt to believe they can spend the state’s money as they like

The Auditor General’s annual report presented to President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Thursday has only reinforced what preliminary audits of financial transactions indicated—most federal units are far from compliant to standard accounting practices. And these discrepancies in book keeping, it seems, are not confined to the local levels, pointing to a serious lack of financial accountabiilty country-wide. Mukul Humagain and Prithvi Man Shrestha talked to Auditor General Tankamani Sharma about the reasons behind this recurring financial indiscipline. Lack of a cost conscious culture has allowed those in govt to believe they can spend the state’s money as they like
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Published at : April 16, 2018
Updated at : April 16, 2018 16:02

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