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Roswell receives clean audit for six‑month transition period; one process finding tied to fiscal-year change

5968790 · October 15, 2025
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Summary

City finance staff and independent auditors reported an unmodified ("clean") opinion on Roswell's six-month audit covering the transition to a December 31 fiscal year, noting no material weaknesses and one process finding related to year‑end adjustments; council took no vote on the report.

Roswell's finance team and the city's independent auditors presented a clean audit for the six-month transition period ending Dec. 31, 2024, reporting no material weaknesses and no instances of noncompliance.

The report, delivered Oct. 14 by Chief Financial Officer Bill Godshall and auditor Ian Van Wyck of CKACPAs and Advisors, covered the off‑cycle audit produced to move the city's fiscal year from June 30 to Dec. 31. Godshall said, "I'm pleased to report the city received an unmodified opinion or clean audit opinion, the highest level of assurance possible." Van Wyck described the same unmodified opinion and summarized audit procedures and key risk areas.

Why it matters: the audit preserved the city's reporting continuity during a fiscal‑year transition and sustains requirements for federal grants and bond covenants. Godshall said completing the…

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