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making up the year-end total of P7 933 478 383. In view of the significance of the matters raised in connection with the reconciliations and other related observations, I have not been able to certify the correctness of the year-end total indicated above. The main points of concern leading to this qualification were the following: 

(a) As indicated in my report for last year and confirmed by the Accounting Officers through his submission to the Public Accounts Committee, the Treasury Cashier office at BDF Headquarters in Mogoditshane had been closed and should not appear in this Statement, yet as at 31 March 2018, this office was included in the Statement with a balance of P242 891. 

(b) At the time of the audit I had not been supplied with copies of the Boards of Survey reports on cash counts for the undernoted Treasury Cashier offices nor were copies available at the Office of the Accountant General. Consequently, the General Ledger balances could not be verified against the Board of Survey physical cash count results as at 31 March 2018. 

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(c) A verification of the year-end Board of Survey cash count results in Treasury Cashier offices against the General Ledger balances had revealed some discrepancies which had not been reconciled as at 31 March 2018. The more significant ones are indicated below:- 

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(d) The Remittances Account, the main Government bank account at Bank of Botswana had a balance of P787 137 598 at 31 March 2018. The perennial reconciliation problems of this account had persisted in the year under review. In his submission to the Public 

