Ex-Solicitor General Jose Calida has officially assumed the chairmanship of the Commission on Audit (COA). Calida was among the recent appointees of President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. Ex-SolGen. Calida arrives at the COA Main Office. To the left is Jayke Joson, a former aide to Manny...
Outgoing Vice President Leni Robredo is ending her six-year term with a bang after the Office of the Vice President (OVP) received an unqualified opinion, the highest audit rating given to a government agency, for the fourth straight year from the Commission on Audit (COA). Vice President Leni...
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) received anew the highest audit rating from the Commission on Audit (COA) for the year 2021. COA's unqualified opinion, considered as the best opinion the Commission can render to a government agency, was the third time for three years for the...
The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) insisted Wednesday, June 22, that it followed regular processes in utilizing its funds for disaster response and Covid-19 pandemic even as the Commission on Audit (COA) flagged them for their low budget utilization rate. Undersecretary Ricardo Jalad, Office of...
The Commission on Audit (COA) cited the Parañaque city government for its fair and transparent financial statement report on Tuesday, June 21. Mayor Edwin Olivarez and City Administrator Fernando Soriano. (Photo from Parañaque PIO) Mayor Edwin Olivarez thanked National Capital Region (NCR) COA...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has garnered an unmodified opinion, the highest audit rating given by the Commission on Audit (COA) for the "fair presentation" of its financial reports and records. PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva (Photo courtesy of PDEA) PDEA Director General...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has maintained the highest audit mark from the Commission on Audit (COA) for the fourth straight year. In a statement, the SEC said it has received an “unmodified opinion” from the COA, a testament to the Commission’s transparent...
The Commission on Audit (COA), on Wednesday, June 8, flagged the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) for unreliable accounting in the agency’s “Abandoned/ Surrendered Property/Assets,” noting that it had left unreported over 100 items in its inventory which include artworks and...
Deputy Speaker and Cagayan De Oro 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez said that the chairmanships of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the Commission on Audit (COA), and the Civil Service Commission (CSC) will be vacated on Saturday, June 4, and not on June 30, following the sine die adjournment...
Bayan Muna Party-list has slammed the Employers Confederation of the Philippines’s (ECOP) “free occupancy” of a government office space, describing the ECOPs failure to pay rent as “freeloading” on the backs of workers and the government. Bayan Muna Rep. Ferdinand Gaite “Freeloading na...
Senator Francis Tolentino on Sunday welcomed the Commission on Audit’s (COA) report on Olympic pole vaulter EJ Obiena’s liquidation issues saying the agency’s finding has finally put a closure to the valuable athlete’s problems. In a letter sent by COA to the Philippine Sports Commission...
Filipino elite pole vaulter EJ Obiena heaved a sigh of relief after he was cleared of his liquidation issues by the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) through the Commission on Audit (COA). ej obiena1 Obiena posted a copy of the Credit Notice from COA dated March 31, 2022 on Facebook Friday, April...