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State auditors report clean financial audit; note recovered cyber loss and recommend strengthened payment controls
Summary
The Washington State Auditor’s Office presented its fiscal-year-2023 accountability and financial-statement audit to the Des Moines City Council, issuing an unmodified opinion on the city’s regulatory-basis financial statements and reporting a management letter recommending stronger controls after a cyber incident whose funds were recovered.
Representatives from the Washington State Auditor’s Office presented results of the City of Des Moines' fiscal-year-2023 audits at the March 27 council meeting. The auditors issued an unmodified (clean) opinion on the city's financial statements under the office’s regulatory basis and reported no material weaknesses in financial-statement internal controls.
Marcus Nelson, an audit manager on the South King County team, and Paul Griswold summarized audit work across accounts payable, procurement, payroll, asset tracking, open public meetings compliance, and federal-award…
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