Commentary on the 2020–2021 Financial Audits

This report is not an audit report. Instead, it highlights the results of the financial audits we—the Office of the Auditor General of Canada—conducted in federal organizations for fiscal years ended between July 2020 and April 2021. (We refer to these as the 2020–2021 financial audits.) This report also provides additional insights from financial audits, and reports on the results of audit work on the government’s spending in response to the COVID‑19 pandemic.

• The Government of Canada’s COVID-19 economic response
• Results of our 2020–2021 financial audits
• Opportunities for improvement noted in our 2020–2021 financial audits
• Additional insights from our financial audits—Cybersecurity
• Additional insights from our financial audits—Advancing the use of data

• Pay administration
• National Defence inventory and asset pooled items

• COVID-19 Impact
• Background to the Commentary
• Financial Audit Glossary