Students gave 3 euro in bank, “paid” semester 300 euro in UP

The auditor General has noticed discrepancy on students’ payments at the University of Prishtina, whereas following the verifications in Reiffesein Bank it has noticed that students have made payments of 3 and 5 euro, whereas they have presented the same payments in university as payments worth 50, 250 or 300 euro. The auditor has concluded that it is fraud.

The University of Prishtina has many defects in financial management, as in insufficient controls on incomes, where was noticed discrepancy between the values in payment papers issued by commercial bank and the amounts in the bank account of UP. Moreover, in UP there is as well excess of phone expenses and cases when one person has received two salaries.

In an audit that that done by the Office of General Auditor (ZAP) in the University of Prishtina for 2011, it has noticed many defects in some fields of financial management of this institution, which reads that they want to warn them on insufficient controls on incomes, which resulted with differences between the values of payment papers issued by commercial banks and the amounts in the bank account of UP.

The auditor office concluded that the system of internal controls in UP is not designed in appropriate way to eliminate the defects and it is not being implemented in the right way, and this should be addressed in order to improve the administrative and financial performance of the organization.

According to this report, the expense of the budget for capital investments of 58% only in the last two months, as well the fact of not planning the cash flow, were the main characteristics of budgetary performance.