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Assessment: Volunteer fire companies show improved controls; vendor management weakest area

2567680 · March 11, 2025
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Summary

A county-commissioned internal control maturity assessment found credit/debit card controls strongest and vendor management the most common weakness among volunteer fire and rescue companies; cohort 2 included eight companies and the county will provide training and follow-up assessments.

County finance staff and forensic auditors presented results of the second cohort of a multi-year internal control maturity assessment for volunteer fire and rescue companies at the March 11 meeting. The assessment, developed with Cherry Bekaert and adopted by the finance committee in 2020, evaluates five core process areas: cash receipts, expenditures, vendor management, account reconciliation and credit/debit cards.

Tiffany McCoy, forensic manager…

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