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Hebron officials outline causes and fixes after audit fell six months behind
Summary
Town officials told the Board of Selectmen that staffing turnover and legacy software setup errors caused a six-month audit delay; auditors begin field work Aug. 18 and town aims to issue the audit by September while adopting process, staffing and software corrections.
Lori, the town finance staff member, told the Hebron Board of Selectmen on July 24 that the town's fiscal 2024 audit is six months late because of repeated staff turnover and accounting set-up errors from a 2019 financial-software migration. She said auditors will begin two weeks of field work on Aug. 18 and the town is aiming for an issued audit in September.
The finance staff member said many corrective steps are under way: hours of remediation with the software vendor to fix encumbrances and accounts-payable coding, use of a consultant to reconcile prior-period entries, and development of written year-end-close and departmental…
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