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County auditors find data-quality problems in water-sewer delinquency reports and open application review
Summary
The Office of Independent Internal Audit reported data-quality issues in recent presentations of DeKalb County water and sewer delinquent billing totals, and the auditors are conducting a system-level review of the utility-billing application (Inquesta) and reporting processes.
DeKalb County’s Office of Independent Internal Audit told the Finance, Audit and Budget Committee that recent presentations on water and sewer delinquencies contained reporting inconsistencies and incomplete fields that make headline delinquency totals difficult to verify. Director of Audit Patrice Campbell said the office has begun a formal application and data review.
"About approximately $10,000,000 or 9% of those bills were actually flagged as current," Director Campbell said while summarizing the May 20 presentation and subsequent data pulls. The audit team compared the May presentation, a June data extract and a July 2025 report and found divergent totals driven largely by which account statuses and account types were included in the…
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