Annual Report on Operations for the Year Ended March 31, 2025

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This Annual Report completes the accountability cycle that began when the Office tabled its 2025 Business and Financial Plan in November 2023. It compares actual results to planned results (e.g., budget, targets) for the year ended March 31, 2025.

The Office achieved all of its 11 performance targets in 2025.

This is the first Report detailing results against the 11 performance measures and targets set in our 2024–29 Strategic Plan, which includes measuring the acceptance and implementation of our audit recommendations to assess our Office performance.

While our Office is not granted powers to compel the Government of Saskatchewan to implement our audit recommendations, our follow-up process provides a mechanism to foster improvements. Thorough and frequent follow-up audits on recommendations increase the likelihood of implementation. This Report reflects that the Standing Committee on Public Accounts continued to agree with our audit recommendations and Government continued to implement our audit recommendations in a timely manner in 2025. Both show the Office’s work
contributed to better management in the public sector.

We worked hard in 2025 to meet the needs of legislators and the public for information about government programs and services. We prioritized our work to make sure we provided legislators with timely audited financial information, as required by law, for the vast majority of government agencies we audited. We were one of the first provinces to provide an audit opinion on our government’s financial statements in June 2024. Through our 2024 Report – Volumes 1 and 2, we delivered legislators and the public the results of quality, relevant audits. These Volumes reported the results of approximately 250 different agencies’ annual integrated audits, 10 performance audits, and 34 follow-up audits. We accomplished these extensive deliverables because of the great cooperation between our auditees and our professional and engaged staff.

The Office also continued to manage its finances carefully. We systematically seek innovations to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of our IT systems and processes. This Annual Report includes independent external audit reports on the key aspects of the Office’s operations, finances, and controls (which had no significant reportable matters) that give legislators and the public confidence in the reliability of our administration.

In closing, I value the collaboration and support of legislators, government officials, and appointed auditors. In particular, I thank the Standing Committee on Public Accounts for its consideration and support of the Office’s work. Its fulsome, public review of our Reports helps to ensure the Office’s work advances the Government's accountability, transparency, and management of public resources for the people of Saskatchewan.

Tara Clemett, CPA, CA, CISA

Provincial Auditor

Read: Annual Report on Operations For the Year Ended March 31, 2025

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