Tell me when we get to the bit that's surprising

Three lots of Audit Commission inspectors have commented to the effect that our income targets have nothing to do with the Library Service's ability to achieve the targets and everything to do with providing a balanced forecast budget at the beginning of the financial year. T.Aldous is having a major panic because we're not meeting the income targets for 2006/7.

Why is this a surprise?

Isn't week 51 of the financial year a bit late to start worrying about it?