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Auditor flags four routine accounting issues but gives Hawthorne district an unmodified opinion
Summary
At a Hawthorne Board of Education meeting, auditors reported four findings — outstanding bank reconcilations, grant-reconciliation gaps, errors in the Application for State School Aid workpapers, and incomplete transportation documentation — but said the district received an unmodified audit opinion for 2023–24 and remains fiscally sound.
Auditors delivering the Hawthorne Public School District's 2023—————————audit told the Board of Education on Jan. 14, 2025, they found four areas needing improvement but issued an unmodified opinion on the district's financial statements.
In a presentation, Mr. Swisher, the auditor, said the audit contained four findings and corresponding recommendations: bank reconciliations showing uncleared items older than one month; a lack of reconciliation between the district's internal accounting for federal grant expenditures and the state's grant drawdown system; errors and classification problems in the Application for State School Aid (ASSA) workpapers, including missing documentation for some low-income student classifications; and incomplete transportation reporting for certain nonpublic students where required forms were not on file.
The nut of the auditors' message: these items require correction but are…
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