Summit set to plan county’s write-off

Whitman County finance officials had planned a summit Wednesday, Dec. 8, to try to reconcile investments logged in the county’s books with those recorded on bank statements.

Earlier this year, Elias Siriani, a contracted accountant from the Anderson Peretti firm in Spokane, discovered county records showed $216,000 more in investments than could be confirmed on bank statements.

County officials, wanting balanced books to input into the five-year-old, half-million dollar New World computer accounting software, plan to wipe the $216,000 off the books before bringing in the new system next year....