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    You will probably have to trawl through lots of minutes of council meetings to check that any expenditure has been properly approved. Those will also provide a clue as to what the brief descriptions in the accounts refer to. You should also check whether the parish clerk or committee chairmen have any discretion to pay out small amounts without full council authority, and if so, check that all such amounts, however small, have been reported to full council and minuted. Statements in the minutes such as 'the parish clerk reported sundry items of expenditure totalling £189' are unacceptable.

    One disappointing thing about council minutes is that they never disclose which members voted which way. Unanimous decisions are usually described as such but if you want to know who to blame you have to be there at the meeting.

    Welcome to the fascinating world of forensic accounting. I used to do some of that in my banking career.

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