Compare
Four periods, one measuring stick.
The same Auditor-General reports, grouped by the governing period each audited financial year falls in. Read the per-year figure before the headline total — the periods do not cover the same number of years.
Select any mark to open the records and source documents behind it.
Head to head
The totals, and what they are made of
Only financial years with a usable published report are counted. Years where no total could be extracted are shown separately rather than treated as zero.
2017–2025 leads on both cumulative total and average per financial year. Even so, treat the comparison carefully: reported figures are affected by audit scope, inflation, and — in dollar terms — the cedi’s movement against the dollar.
Reported totals, financial year by financial year
Lines break where no usable report exists. FY2000–FY2009 is absent from the archive entirely, which is why no line begins earlier.
- 2009–2017
- 2017–2025
- 2025–present
Converted at Bank of Ghana year-end interbank rates; not inflation-adjusted.
SourceGhana Audit Service, annual public-accounts reports
By part of the public sector
Which audit streams account for each governing period's reported total.
SourceGhana Audit Service
By type of irregularity
Built from the itemised category lines inside each report, excluding each report's own grand total so nothing is counted twice.
SourceGhana Audit Service
Before you draw a conclusion
What this comparison cannot tell you.
Scope changes over time.
What the Auditor-General counts as an irregularity, and how many institutions are audited, has not been constant. A rising line partly reflects a widening audit.
Figures are nominal.
Nothing here is adjusted for inflation. Cedi amounts from 2012 and 2024 are not the same quantity of money, and dollar conversions add exchange-rate movement on top.
Reported is not proven.
These are audit findings. Some are later recovered, corrected or explained. The published reports do not consistently record what happened next, so neither do we.