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Jackson County receives clean audit for fiscal year ended Dec. 31, 2024
Summary
County auditors reported an unmodified opinion on the 2024 financial statements, no material weaknesses or noncompliance, and no management-letter comments; auditors highlighted large capital spending and decreases in pension/OPEB liabilities.
Cody Mitchell, CPA, the audit manager for the firm conducting Jackson County’s 2024 audit, told the Board of Commissioners that the auditors issued an unmodified opinion on the county’s financial statements for the year ended Dec. 31, 2024 — commonly described as a “clean” audit.
Mitchell said the audit team “noted no material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in internal controls” and found “no matters of noncompliance” under Government Auditing Standards. He also said the single-audit work on federal funds — which this year included WIC and COVID-related programs — produced no findings and no deficiencies.
The auditors noted several large year-to-year variances to explain. Capital assets rose by more than $16 million because of multiple projects, Mitchell said, naming the…
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