September 2024 – audit opinion data

The number of audit opinions delivered as at 30 September 2024 is shown in the tables below.

Audit year –
backstop date
Number of opted-in bodies (total audits)Number of audits delivered up to 30 Sept 2024
2023/24
28 Feb 2025
4592 (<1%)
Audit year –
publishing date
Number of opted-in bodies (total audits)Percentage of audits complete by publishing dateNumber of audits outstanding per year at 30 Sept 2024Number of incomplete audits by the oldest outstanding year
2022/23
30 Sept 2023
4671%283 (61%)136
2021/22
30 Nov 2022
46712%147 (31%)89
2020/21
30 Sep 2021
4749%58 (12%)35
2019/20
30 Nov 2020
47845%23 (5%)16
2018/19
31 Jul 2019
48757%7 (1%)6
Please note: the table excludes three opinions outstanding at one body from 2015/16 to 2017/18.

You can access a breakdown of detailed audit opinion data up to 30 September 2024 in this report.