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External auditor: 2023–24 audit nearly complete; grant compliance finding expected
Summary
Petillo, Brown & Hill told Stafford City Council the 2023–24 financial audit is near completion but will include a finding for a missed federal data-collection filing; auditor projected a finished report for council review in early October.
Stafford — An independent audit partner told the Stafford City Council on Sept. 3 that auditors have finished most fieldwork for the city’s 2023–24 financial audit and expect to finish production and review in coming weeks, but that the audit will include a finding because the city missed a federal data-collection filing deadline.
Chris Pruitt, audit partner with Petillo, Brown & Hill, said the firm’s field work is complete and a draft product will be delivered to the firm’s review team early next week. “I will be getting a complete product on Monday,” Pruitt said. He added he expects the firm to finalize the audit work internally by about Sept. 17 and to present financial statements to council around Oct. 1.
Pruitt told council the interim work went “very well,” but that auditors will record at least one…
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