Financial Services

The Financial Services team is responsible for producing the Council's annual financial statements and the budget (including fees and charges).  The team administers payments for invoices raised to the Council and also carries out the Council's treasury management functions.

The Financial Services team aim to:

• provide high quality, cost effective, professional and timely financial services to the Council and it's Members.
• support the Corporate Director (Resources) in ensuring the proper administration and stewardship of the Council's Financial Affairs.
• ensure that all aspects of the Section's service delivery are user orientated and place a high value on the views, needs and requirements of its users.

The Council has set a number of strategic financial objectives

Audit of Acounts Year Ended 31 March 2009

Audit Commission Act 1998, sections 15 - 16 Accounts and Audit Regulations 2003 Regulations 13, 14 & 16

The Council’s accounts are subject to external audit by Andy Mack, District Auditor of Audit Commission, 16 South Park, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 1AN. Members of the public and local government electors have certain rights in the audit process:

1. From 23 June 2009 to 20 July 2009 between 9.00 am and 4.30 pm each weekday any person may inspect the accounts of the Council for the year ended 31 March 2009 and certain related documents (comprising books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers and receipts) at the address given below.  They may also make copies of the accounts and documents.
2. From 10am on 21 July 2009 until the conclusion of the audit process, a local government elector for the area of the Council, or his/her representative, may ask the auditor questions about the accounts.  Please contact the auditor at the address given above to make arrangements to ask any questions. The District Auditor will also be available for this purpose at the address given below from 10am to 4pm on 21 July 2009.
3. From 10am on 21 July 2009 until the conclusion of the audit process, a local government elector for the area of the Council, or his/her representative, may object to the Council’s accounts asking that the auditor issue a report in the public interest (under section 8 of the Audit Commission Act 1998) and/or apply to the court for a declaration that an item in the accounts is contrary to law (under section 17 of the Audit Commission Act 1998).  Written notice of a proposed objection and the grounds on which it is made must be sent to the auditor at the address given above and copied to me at the address given below.

Dated: 1 June 2009

Sue McGonigal, Director of Finance and Corporate Services

Thanet District Council, Cecil Street, Margate, Kent, CT9 1XZ (telephone no. 01843 577790)

• Read the Statement of Accounts 2008-09

Financial Services

E-mail: accountancy@
thanet.gov.uk

Tel: 01843 577000