Meriwether County audit: independent firm issues clean opinion, flags three findings

Apr 30, 2026

An external auditor told the Meriwether County Board of Commissioners that Mauldin & Jenkins issued an unmodified (clean) opinion on the FY2025 financial statements while identifying three findings related to segregation of duties, capital-asset completeness and a water/sewer revenue entry.

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Will Derzis, a director with Mauldin & Jenkins, presented Meriwether County's fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2025, audit and reported that the firm issued an unmodified (clean) opinion. "We did issue an unmodified report, which is a clean opinion," Derzis said, adding that the opinion means the statements "present fairly the operations and state of things" for the year.

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