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St. Tammany schools receive clean audit; board approves federal and state budgets
Summary
External auditors delivered an unmodified (clean) opinion on the district’s fiscal year audit; the board approved recommended federal and state budgets and reviewed monthly financial reports including transfers into parishwide construction.
An external auditor told the St. Tammany Parish School Board the district’s fiscal-year audit resulted in an unmodified opinion and no reportable internal control weaknesses.
The finding, delivered by Lester Rishu of LaPorte, was the headline of a finance update during the board’s public meeting. Rishu said auditors also reviewed federal awards including Education Stabilization Fund spending and “didn’t encounter any issues that we had to report” in that portion of the federal awards audit.
The clean audit — often called an unmodified opinion — means the auditors did not find conditions that would require a qualified opinion or reportable control deficiencies. “No weaknesses or control…
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