Section II – Financial Statement Findings

Reference
Number
Finding
2025-001

Criteria: Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining effective internal controls over financial reporting. 2 CFR 200.510 states “the auditee must prepare financial statements that reflect its financial position, results of operations or changes in net assets, and, where appropriate, cash flows for the fiscal year audited”

Condition: The County’s internal control environment over financial reporting did not detect certain adjustments to capital assets that were needed to prevent the financial statements from being materially misstated.

Cause: The County’s internal control environment did not identify these adjustments in a timely manner because certain account reconciliations, analyses and financial data were not always completed or subjected to a timely secondary review.

Effect or Potential Effect: Misstatements in the financial statements.

Recommendation: The County should continue to establish and maintain an effective process whereby capital assets are reconciled to the accounting system on a regular basis while ensuring a secondary review of these reconciliations.

Views of Responsible Officials and Planned Corrective Actions: For the views of responsible officials, refer to the Corrective Action Plan.

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