Legacy accounting system and payroll posting errors blamed for audit problems, consultant says
City CPA consultant told the budget committee that an aging accounting package and lumped journal entries obscured vendor-level payroll and AP detail, complicating reconciliations; staff reported improvements for later months but said FY24 remains closed and harder to fix.
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A city CPA consultant described the technical root causes auditors flagged: a legacy accounting package that requires closing a fiscal year and provides limited vendor-level access once closed, combined with processes that relied on aggregated journal entries rather than vendor detail.
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