State auditors continue to find county deficiencies

The Washington State Auditor’s Office last week released another audit report for 2014, again finding that the county lacks significant internal controls.

This audit, unlike the previous audit released in September, dealt with payroll processing. The prior audit was in regard to the county’s financial processing and reporting system.

According to the audit report, the county has made some progress since working with the Governmental Finance Officers Association (GFOA) and State Auditor’s Office Local Government Performance Center, but “no improvements have been made to the current methods used...