Auditor General's Qualifications Impact on 2012/13 Public Accounts

British Columbia's 2013 Financial-Economic Review includes a table showing the estimated financial impact if the government had adopted the Auditor General's qualifications on its 2012/13 Public Accounts. The dataset is provided by the Government of British Columbia and was last updated in April 2026. It is available in XLSX and HTML formats under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Quantify the financial impact of audit qualifications based on the described counterfactual scenario.
• Analyze the relationship between auditor recommendations and government accounting practices based on the described impact.
• Benchmark the scale of potential adjustments to public accounts based on the described qualifications.

Strengths

• Data originates from an official government source, the Government of British Columbia.
• Last update timestamp is explicitly provided: 2026-04 17 15:26:41.490958.
• Available in structured XLSX format suitable for analysis.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Government of British Columbia

Collection Method

Likely extracted from official government financial reports.

Time Range

2012/13 fiscal year

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 15:26:41.490958; freshness should be verified.

Geography

British Columbia, Canada