About Auditdata Gh.
Purpose
Auditdata Gh is a public database that presents financial irregularities reported by the Auditor-General of Ghana from FY2010 to the present. It is designed to make official records searchable, comparable across governments, and durable over time. The site is non-partisan: every entry is attributed to the ruling government during the relevant financial year so citizens can compare records across administrations, not to score points for any party.
What the data shows
The site contains financial irregularities reported by the Auditor-General of Ghana in annual public-accounts audit reports. These are findings from official audits of central government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs), Public Boards and Corporations, Pre-University institutions and Tertiary institutions.
Each record shows the amount reported by the Auditor-General, the financial year, the ruling government at the time, the audit stream the finding belongs to, and a direct link to the published PDF source. We do not add, subtract from or reinterpret the figures. The purpose of the site is simply to present the data reported by the Auditor-General in a single, accessible place.
What the fields mean
- Financial year
- The Ghana government financial year to which the audit report relates. Most reports cover a single year, but some span multiple years.
- Ruling government
- The political party that held the presidency during the relevant financial year. This is used only to group findings by administration, not to assign blame.
- Audit stream
- The category of public body audited: MDAs, District Assemblies, Public Boards, Pre-University or Tertiary institutions.
- Amount (GHS)
- The irregularity amount in Ghana Cedis exactly as stated in the Auditor-General's report.
- Amount (USD)
- A rough conversion using the year-end Bank of Ghana interbank rate for the relevant financial year. Provided only for cross-year comparison.
- Source PDF
- A link to the official published report on the Ghana Audit Service website. Use it to verify any figure directly.
Government periods
Audit findings are grouped by the party that held the presidency during the relevant financial year:
- NDC — 2009–2016
- NPP — 2017–2024
- NDC — 2025 to date
Why data starts at FY2010
The Auditor-General's annual public-accounts reports are only reliably available in the Ghana Audit Service online archive from financial year 2010 onward. Reports for 2000–2009 were either not published digitally, used different formats, or are too degraded for automated extraction. The timeline and comparison pages therefore begin at FY2010. We mark this gap clearly and welcome pointers to usable primary sources for those years.
Sourcing
Every figure links directly to the official PDF published by the Ghana Audit Service. Where possible we prefer primary documents over secondary reporting. If a source link is broken, please report it and we will update or replace it.
Currency and conversion
Audit totals are shown in Ghana Cedis (GHS) as reported by the Auditor-General, and in US dollars (USD) using year-end Bank of Ghana interbank exchange rates for the relevant financial year. These are nominal figures; they are not inflation-adjusted. USD equivalents are provided only to aid cross-year comparison and should be treated as approximate.
Review pipeline
Entries are drafted, reviewed, and published through an internal admin workflow. Admin and reviewer roles are managed separately from user accounts, and write access is gated behind authentication and role checks. Public users can read all entries and submit error reports; only reviewers and admins can edit or publish new entries.
Corrections
If you see an inaccuracy — a wrong date, a missing source, a misattributed year, or a figure that appears incorrect — please report the error. Reports are triaged by reviewers before edits are made public.
Limits
The ledger reflects only what the Auditor-General has published and what we have been able to extract. It is not a complete picture of all public financial irregularities in Ghana. Absence of an entry is not evidence of absence of irregularities.
Figures are nominal and should not be compared directly across many years without adjusting for inflation and exchange-rate changes. USD conversions are approximate. Reports for 2000–2009 are missing from the online archive, so totals by government are incomplete for those periods.
We do not track prosecutions, convictions, recoveries, refunds or court outcomes. A large figure in one year does not mean money was stolen, and a small figure does not mean everything was properly accounted for. Read the underlying audit reports for the full context behind each finding.