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Columbia County accepts clean 2024 financial audit; auditors flag internal-control findings
Summary
Auditors reported an unmodified (clean) opinion on Columbia County's fiscal 2023–24 financial statements but identified six audit findings including a material weakness tied to grant accounting; the board voted to accept the audit and asked staff to improve inter-agency documentation.
Columbia County commissioners voted to accept the county’s fiscal-year 2024 financial audit and heard a presentation from Powell & Jones CPA, the county’s external auditors, who issued an unmodified — or “clean” — opinion on the county’s financial statements for the year ended Sept. 30, 2024.
Caleb Perla, a partner at Powell & Jones, told commissioners the audit found the county’s total governmental funds assets of approximately $106 million, liabilities of $26…
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