Finding 1225228 (2025-001)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
P
Questioned Costs
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Year
2025
Accepted
2026-07-30
Audit: 408258
Organization: CITY OF RUSH CITY (MN)
Auditor: CARLSONSV LLP

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: The City approved corrections for misstatements, indicating a lack of effective controls to prevent material errors in financial statements.
  • Impacted Requirements: The City must ensure accurate financial records and timely adjustments to comply with GAAP.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: The City should assess and enhance internal control processes to ensure proper year-end account adjustments.

Finding Text

Finding 2025-001. Material Audit Adjustments Condition: The audit firm proposed, and the City approved corrections of certain misstatements. Criteria The City should have controls in place to prevent and detect a material misstatement in the financial statements in a timely manner. Management is responsible for the accuracy and completeness of all financial records and related information. Their responsibility includes adjusting the financial statements to correct material misstatements. Cause: The City has not established controls to ensure that all accounts are adjusted to their appropriate year-end balances in accordance with GAAP.Effect: The design of internal control over completeness and accuracy of financial records could adversely affect the City’s ability to detect misstatements in amounts that would be material in relation to the financial statements in a timely period by employees in the normal course of performing their assigned functions. Recommendation: The City should continue to evaluate its internal controls processes to determine if additional internal control procedures should be implemented to ensure that accounts are adjusted to their appropriate year end balances in accordance with GAAP.

Corrective Action Plan

Corrective Action Plan (CAP) Disagreement with Audit Finding: None Actions Planned in Response to Finding: The City will continue to review and approve adjusting journal entries as proposed by the auditor, as well as taking responsibility for the audited financial statements. Official Responsible for Ensuring CAP: Amy Mell, City Administrator Planned Completion Date for CAP: December 31, 2026 Plan to Monitor Completion of CAP: City Council

Categories

Internal Control / Segregation of Duties

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 1225229 2025-002
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1225230 2025-003
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1225231 2025-004
    Material Weakness Repeat

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
20.106 AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND JOBS ACT PROGRAMS, AND COVID-19 AIRPORTS PROGRAMS $1.67M