Examples of using Board could not in English and their translations into French
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Since the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs had not been in a position to process the documentation before the closure of the accounts, the Board could not determine what proportion of the total constituted each category.
Because of the lack of adequate supporting documents covering the payment of $2.2 million as salaries to local staff at UNOSOM II, the Board could not validate this expenditure in the financial statements see para. 68.
Accordingly, the Board could not obtain assurance that the value of non-expendable equipment as disclosed in the financial statements for the financial period ended 30 June 2000 is reasonable;
Their legal counsel concluded that the board could not legally change the name,
The Board could not reach consensus
However, the Board could not track the value of these fees in the cost estimate,
In 4 of the 11 cases examined, the Board could not identify any such analysis,
The Board could not verify whether there had been approved revisions to the project budgets because it did not have access to the relevant link on Atlas to verify the existence of such documents.
The location of equipment was not updated on the inventory system and the Board could not physically verify 79 per cent of the sample selected from the inventory listing.
Since this review was not done for all values recorded, the Board could not obtain sufficient assurance that similar reporting errors had been detected and rectified.
The Board could not reach consensus on resubmitting to the General Assembly the proposal to allow part-time staff to purchase years of contributory service;
UNFPA have not been provided, and the Board could not determine if reconciling items were valid,
The vehicles, cannibalized under a contractual arrangement, had not been documented or accounted for through the normal inventory control procedures and, as a result, the Board could not verify the quantity of spare parts obtained from the cannibalization exercise.
The Board could not determine the extent of such instances
Consequently, the Board could not fully audit the guaranteed maximum price contracts, even though they are supposed to take in more than one half of the overall building renovation cost and are presented by the Office
a debit balance of $481,387.93 still remained on this account, which the Board could not validate.
Owing to the absence of a tracking record of actual expenditure incurred for a particular meeting or conference, the Board could not determine whether the object of expenditure as shown in table II.2 was originally charged with the same amount reimbursed.
Given the range of topics covered, the Board could not discern any meaningful patterns
at the organizational level. Given the range of topics covered, the Board could not discern any meaningful patterns
explaining that the Naturalization Board could not satisfy her request,