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Layton extends auditor's contract, gets price break

Last updated Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 11:38pm

LAYTON -- City officials have voted to extend the financial audit contract for Hansen Bradshaw Malmrose & Erickson of Bountiful.

The city council recently voted unanimously to extend the contract with the auditing group for three years. Before the extension, the firm was in the fifth year of a five-year contract.

City Manager Alex Jensen said in exchange for the extension, the Bountiful-based firm lowered the current year's price of an audit from $29,000 to $27,000.

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USU administrator fired in scholarship funds probe

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 10:44am

LOGAN -- A Utah State University administrator has been fired after a routine internal audit showed irregularities in the distribution of scholarship funds.

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Audit report says Ogden School District curriculum a year below assigned grade levels

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 7:08am

OGDEN -- Classes in Ogden School District have curriculum about a year below assigned grade levels, according to an audit report conducted by a Colorado company.

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WSU: Employee admits stealing hundreds from Shepherd Union

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 9:16pm

OGDEN — A Weber State University employee has been arrested by campus police on suspicion of stealing $600 to $700 from the Shepherd Union.

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Auditor gives Harrisville positive review

Correspondent Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, February 10, 2012 - 2:28pm

The city received a positive audit review at a recent council meeting.

Jeff Ambrose of Crane, Christensen, Palmer & Associates said that the city’s finances are very healthy.

“The city has virtually no debt,” said Ambrose. “We don’t have any long-term debt here.”

Ambrose said that Harrisville is one of the few cities his firm audits that doesn’t have any debt.

Judicial and Building Inspections overspent by a combined $709, but other departments more than made up that amount with revenue.

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Audit forecasts UTA shortfalls

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, January 27, 2012 - 12:45am

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Utah Transit Authority might not have the money to build future projects or even properly operate and maintain projects that are currently under construction.

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Sec. of Defense Leon Panetta, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, right, outline the main areas of proposed spending cuts during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington, Thursday, Jan., 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Defense Department nowhere near ready for financial audit

Trish Choate Wichita Falls Times Record

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 3:54pm

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Defense has waged war on two fronts in the Middle East, kept complicated fighter, bomber and transport aircraft flying all over the world and schooled troops in high-level intelligence gathering, but it hasn't won the battle of the balance sheet after more than 20 years of engagement.

It's not that the department can't pass a routine financial audit, giving taxpayers an assurance the Pentagon knows how its spending their dollars in these tight budget times.

It's worse than that.

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A performance audit of the Utah Transit Authority shows the agency might not have the money to build wanted future projects or even operate projects that are currently under construction.

UTA may not have the money to fund its plans

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 1:38pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A performance audit of the Utah Transit Authority shows the agency might not have the money to build wanted future projects or even operate projects that are currently under construction.

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Plain City receives good audit report

Terrie L. Stephenson Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 15, 2012 - 9:17pm

PLAIN CITY — The annual audit of city finances provided the best rating a city can get, according to Lynn Wood of Wood Richards & Associates.

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Roy renews audit company’s contract

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 8, 2012 - 12:29am

ROY — The city will stick with Wiggins & Co.’s auditing services for two more years.

The auditors have audited the city for the past three years and agreed to the service for 2012 for the same 2011 price of $11,000. The cost will go up to $11,500 in 2013.

The city has been very pleased with Wiggins & Co., said finance director Cathy Spencer, and doesn’t see the need to bid for another auditor.

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Audit reveals extra money in Farmington's reserve fund

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 12:07am

FARMINGTON -- This city has an enviable problem: The most recent financial audit revealed it ended the 2010-11 fiscal year with too much money in a reserve fund.

State guidelines allow a municipality to have an unrestricted fund balance of up to 18 percent, and the city's $1.7 million surplus exceeded that mark for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2011. The fund is in excess of 18 percent by approximately $572,982, according to the audit, which was released Dec. 20.

"Even though it's something we need to watch closely, it's a good thing," Mayor Scott Harbertson said of the excess in reserve.

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South Weber audit is smooth sailing

Correspondent Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 1:52pm

Tim Rees, a CPA who recently performed an audit of the city, met with the budget committee and to review details of its budget. Rees reported the city to be clean, that no difficulties were found.

The sales tax and franchise tax were up while the property tax was down because they were having a hard time collecting. Yet, there was “nothing that concerns” the CPA. Mayor Jeff Monroe said, “hats off to the staff” for their diligent work.

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Farr West council hears positive audit results

Terrie L. Stephenson Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, December 19, 2011 - 11:47pm

FARR WEST — The city earned an unqualified opinion on its financial statements following an audit of the 2010-11 fiscal year by Wood Richards & Associates.

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Syracuse's finances improving

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, December 5, 2011 - 11:42pm

SYRACUSE -- The city's financial picture continues to improve, a recent audit suggests.

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Leader of Utah Sheriffs' Association speaks out on Weber jail ICE audit

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 9:16am

OGDEN -- The head of the Utah Sheriffs' Association is blasting a federal audit that resulted in the June removal of 32 Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees from Weber County Jail.

The association's executive director, Gary W. DeLand, of Santa Clara, said Monday that ICE's decision to pull the prisoners from the jail was arbitrary and improper.

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