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Audit committee: county's tax system can't close a year; process fixes, staffing recommended
Summary
Davis County's Internal Audit Committee on March 5 said the county's financial software and processes do not allow a proper year-end close, leaving long-held "parked" prepayments and reconciliation gaps that require policy, technical, and staffing fixes.
Davis County's Internal Audit Committee warned March 5 that longstanding limits in the county's financial software and related processes prevent the county from closing a fiscal year properly, creating reconciliation gaps and long-held prepayments that complicate accurate accounting.
The controller, Curtis Pope, told the committee the problem is structural: "We have never had a system that you can close a year," he said, describing an environment in which prior-year errors roll forward and year-end plug entries obscure whether balances are current or historical. The county is reviewing a software package (referred to in committee materials as…
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