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Audit: Berkeley Heights district receives clean opinion but auditor flags student-activity controls
Summary
The district's annual comprehensive financial report earned an unmodified (clean) opinion from auditors, who found one repeat compliance exception: student activity accounts lacked consistent dual-signature checks and timely posting of receipts. The board accepted the audit and reviewed fund-balance components.
The Berkeley Heights Board of Education accepted its annual comprehensive financial report after auditors told the board they issued an unmodified opinion — the 'clean' standard — on the district's financial statements and the state single-audit. Auditor Bill Swisher told the board the audit found one repeat exception related to student activity accounts: "we noted several checks only contain 1 approval signature," and some cash receipts were not posted the day they were received.…
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