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Visual presentation of the Data.

Select any bar, slice, bubble or cell to open the records and source documents behind it.

Comparison

Comparing values across groups

Where the reported money sits: by part of the public sector, by financial year, and measured against the archive-wide average.


01Bar chart

Reported irregularities by audit stream

Which part of the public sector accounts for the most reported irregularities, and how does each governing period's share compare?


02Column chart

Reported irregularities per financial year

How big was the reported figure in each single financial year, and which governing period does it fall in?


03Bullet graph

Each stream against the all-stream average

Is a given audit stream reporting more or less than the typical stream across the whole archive?

Reference line = $3,992,505,370 (mean cumulative total per stream).

Trend

How the record changes over time

Year-on-year movement and the running cumulative total, from the first published report to the most recent.


04Line chart

Reported irregularities over time, by governing period

Has the reported figure risen or fallen year to year, and how do the governing periods track against each other?

FY2000–FY2009 shows no line because the Ghana Audit Service online archive holds no usable annual reports for those years.

05Area chart

Cumulative reported total, stacked by audit stream

How has the running total accumulated since FY2010, and which streams drive the growth?

Composition

Parts of the whole

What the total is made of — by government, by type of irregularity, and by the relative weight of each audit stream.


06Pie chart

Share of the reported total by governing period

Of everything the Auditor-General has reported since FY2010, what proportion falls in each governing period?


07Donut chart

Share by type of irregularity

What kinds of irregularity make up the total — cash, payroll, tax, procurement, contracts, debts or rent?


08Treemap

Proportional weight of each audit stream

Sized by money rather than by count — how much of the archive does each part of the public sector represent?

Distribution

How the numbers spread out

Whether the total comes from many ordinary findings or a few extraordinary ones, and how steady each stream is year to year.


09Histogram

How large is a typical single finding?

Are most itemised findings modest sums, or is the total driven by a handful of very large ones?


10Box plot

Spread of annual totals within each audit stream

Is a stream steady year to year, or does one exceptional year dominate its record?

Each observation is one financial year's total for that stream.

Relationship

Connections between year, stream and type

Cross-cutting views that put two or three variables on the same surface, so patterns show up that a single bar chart would hide.


11Scatter plot

Every itemised finding, plotted by year and size

Where do the individual findings cluster, and do the largest ones fall in particular years?


12Bubble chart

Stream against year, sized by amount

Which stream-and-year combinations carry the most weight, and where are reports missing entirely?


13Heatmap

Year by irregularity type

Which type of irregularity dominated in which year? The densest single view of the archive.

FYCashPayrollProcurement & storesContractTaxDebts / loansRentOther
2010$64.26M$338.68K$465.18K$192.75K$49.22M$3.17M$56.31K
2011$20.77M$624.31K$476.94K$15.25M$32.31M$3.49M$134.75K
2012$19.21M$756.47K$2.05M$3.72M$181.18M$24.22M
2013$133.35M$889.85K$1.94M$59.96M$26.79M$9.2M$154.2K
2014$13.92M$4.08M$11.8M$3.19M$70.9M$548.34M$53.46K
2015$77.77M$1.02M$9.04M$18.63M$180.39M$740.24M$30.44K$38.32K
2016$559.63M$1.24M$44.85M$21.38M$16.23M$78.03M$2.17M$2K
2017$85.63M$1.74M$16.58M$17.79M$150.29M$2.68B$152.63K
2018$315.59M$1.55M$6.75M$37.77M$994.62M$374.17M$817.79K
2019$94.4M$12.33M$22.31M$35.56M$518.26M$879.7M$7.86M
2020$323.73M$2.66M$153.52M$48.41M$125.75M$1.94B$5.13M
2021$93.88M$3.12M$51.82M$53.78M$168.66M$2.73B$1.35M
2022$11.28M$4.33M$5.35M$1.6M$147.04M$1.76B$249.83K
2023$9.94M$2.38M$5.09M$16.05M$181.39M$729.6M$258.73K
2024$326.56M$4.92M$23.58M$61.51M$112.9M$866.67M$921.75K
2025$46.04M$3.37M$16.51M$14.4M$514.15M$94.06M$14.4K
Colour intensity is scaled to the single largest year-and-type cell in the archive.