As it is, the Auditor-General has 'flagged' the financial health of both the Department and the NPA. The Department's cashflow problems can be seen, for example, in the matter of accruals: in both 2011/12 and 2012/13, the Department deferred paying some creditors beyond 30- days, settling these debts in the next financial year. The Auditor- General reports that the Department would have incurred unauthorised expenditure if it had paid its creditors in the same financial year that the debts arose. The consequences of late payments for the administration of justice can be extremely serious. The Committee heard, for example, how shortage of funds disrupted service delivery in the South Gauteng High Court. Delays in paying the service provider for an off-site document storage project resulted in the service provider being unable to pay storage fees at the warehouse where case records were being housed. The landlord refused access to the records, in turn, leading to delays in the hearing of cases. As the Auditor- General notes these accruals also adversely affect cashflows going forward in a snowball effect.