Provision of ISA-Compliant Audit and Shadow Audit Opinion for National Maritime Museum Financial Statements 2019-21

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National Audit Office awarded a contract to Grant Thornton Limited for the completion of a fully ISA compliant audit and provision of a shadow audit opinion for the C&AG on the National Maritime Museum's 2019-20 and 2020-21 financial statements, including a regularity audit and shadow regularity opinion.

The contract, valued at £105,600, required completion of planning, interim, and final fieldwork and audit completion by Parliamentary Recess in July 2020 for the 2019-20 statements and by July 2021 for the 2020-21 statements.

Milestones included delivery of a full audit plan by 31 December 2019 and 31 December 2020, an Audit Planning Report for the January 2020 and January 2021 Audit Committees, interim audits in February 2020 and February 2021, final audits in May 2020 and May 2021, Audit Completion Reports for the June Audit Committees, Management Letters in June 2020 and June 2021, and shadow audit opinions including regularity opinions in June 2020 and June 2021.