2007-096A - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

1 JEFFREY K. BARTON Clerk of Circuit Court and Comptroller P.O. Box 1028 Vero Beach, Florida 32961-1028 Telephone (772) 770-5185 March 12, 2007 To the Citizens of Indian River County: The Comprehensive Annual Financial Report of Indian River County, Florida for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006, is respectfully submitted. State law requires that every general-purpose government publish a complete set of audited financial statements within six months of the close of each fiscal year. This report was prepared by the Finance Department under the supervision of the Clerk of the Circuit Court. Responsibility for both the accuracy of the presented data and the completeness and fairness of the presentation, including all disclosures, rests with the Finance Department and is contingent upon the internal control established for this purpose. Since the cost of internal control should not exceed anticipated benefits, the objective of the financial statements is to provide reasonable, rather than absolute, assurance that they are free of any material misstatements. Section 11.45, Florida Statutes, requires an annual audit of all County agencies. The County has adirected that the annual audit be more extensive than that required by Florida Statutes by requiring that the annual audit be a single audit covering all the funds and account groups of the County. The unqualified opinion of the auditors, Harris, Cotherman, Jones, Price and Associates, Certified Public Accountants — Chartered, of the County's financial statements for the year ended September 30, 2006 has been included in this report. The independent auditors' report is located at the front of the financial a section of this report. The audit was also designed to meet the requirements of Government Auditing Standards, the Florida Single Audit Act, the Federal Single Audit Act of 1984, the Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996, and revised OMB Circular A-133. Readers of this report are encouraged to read Management's Discussion and Analysis (MD&A), which provides basic financial information about the County and an overview of the County's activities. The MD&A immediately follows the independent auditors' report. Profile of the Government Indian River County, established on June 29, 1925, by an act of the Florida Legislature, is on the central Atlantic coast of Florida, approximately 100 miles southeast of Orlando and 135 miles north of Miami. The County is bordered by Brevard County to the north, St. Lucie County to the south, and Osceola and Okeechobee Counties on the west. There are approximately 100 miles of waterfront land in the County, including 23 miles of Atlantic beaches.