Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
"AUDIT" seems to imply "review after the fact," and that is indeed what the Commission on Audit (CoA) presently does. It reviews expenditure and the application of public funds and then issues audit observation memoranda, notices of suspension or notices of disallowance when, in its appreciation of facts, there has been a misuse of public funds. What this effectively means is that government offices and those who head them labor under no restraint but may later on be held to account for misused public funds either through the demand for reimbursement or restitution or even the distraint of one's salaries from government.
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