Auditors raise the same problems year after year. About half the recurring problems first flagged in 2017 were still being raised seven years later. This site links each finding to the same problem in other years, with its report and paragraph number.
Counts are minimums. How we count
Every year, Sri Lanka's National Audit Office lists the problems it finds at each state institution. This ledger links each problem to the same problem in other audits, so you can see which ones keep coming back. Counts are minimums, because reworded repeats can be missed.
Each tick is an audit that raised the problem, with its paragraph number. +1 means one more paragraph in that report raised it too. Select a row for a summary of what the auditors wrote each time.
Reports for state corporations became much shorter in the newer report format. The National Audit Act of 2018 came in around the same time, and its effect cannot be separated from the format change. Either way, counting findings cannot show whether anything improved.
How one problem gets from a PDF onto this site, shown with a real example from the Road Development Authority.
AI reads 44 reports into 2,373 findings, each with its paragraph number.
A script finds the same problem in the institution's other audits.
Every proposed link is reviewed, and wrong links are removed.
Spotted an error? Institutions and readers can send corrections to [EMAIL]. Corrections are logged publicly.
Before an institution's page is added or changed, the institution is sent its findings and given 30 days to reply. Replies are published next to the findings. No reply is recorded as 'no reply received', and nothing else is read into it.