POL00047997 - Audit Report of North Bransholme Post Office Branch, Branch Code: 174321 to Miss Janet Skinner, Subpostmaster from Paul Field Branch Auditor.

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POL00047997
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Miss Janet Skinner Paul Field Vicky Harrison

Subpostmaster Branch Auditor Contract & Service Manager
Leeds
Area Intervention Office
Paul Dawkins

Investigation Team Manager
Shirley Hailstones
Operations Manager

Date: 31 May 2006

Audit of North Bransholme Post Office® branch, Branch Code 174321

Section 1 - Introduction

An audit of the above branch was led by myself on 31/00/2006. The purpose of this
audit was to verify financial assets due to the Post Office® and confirm compliance
with a range of Business processes, procedures and regulatory requirements.

Section 2 provides a management summary, including the financial audit result.
Section 3 details a breakdown of the result of the financial audit.

Appendix A details the areas of non-compliance to regulatory matters and Appendix
B details areas of non-conformance identified during tests of selected policy and
procedures. Both appendices include the actions agreed with during the
closing meeting,

Section 2 - Management Summary

The financial audit revealed a current trading position of £ 59216.43 short, subject
to areconciliation of some figures (undertaken after the audit). A breakdown of this
figure, including any pending transaction corrections or losses being settled
centrally, can be found in section 3

Due to findings revealed at audit, and a decision taken by the contracts and service
manager to temporary suspend you from your role as subpostmaster pending
further enquiries, compliance testing was not carried out on this visit, therefore there
are no appendices attached.

Section 3 - Result of the Financial Audit

Financial assets to the value of £15543.71 were physically verified compared to the
amount due to Post Office® of £74760.14.
The difference between these figures is broken down as follows:

£ 58942.41 - Identified as a difference in cash figures
£ 274.02 _-__ Identified as a difference in stock figures
£ 5921643 -_ Totalshortage

Comments:

The shortage of £59216.43 is to be settled centrally.

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