{"id":15212,"date":"2016-08-30T13:25:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T17:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=15212"},"modified":"2016-08-30T11:29:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T15:29:53","slug":"city-of-defiance-qualifies-for-auditor-of-state-award-with-distinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/city-of-defiance-qualifies-for-auditor-of-state-award-with-distinction\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Defiance Qualifies for Auditor of State Award with Distinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8001\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Defiance-College-300x185.jpg?resize=300%2C185\" alt=\"Defiance College\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Defiance-College.jpg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Defiance-College.jpg?resize=360%2C222&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Defiance-College.jpg?resize=260%2C160&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Defiance-College.jpg?resize=160%2C98&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Defiance-College.jpg?w=894&amp;ssl=1 894w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Columbus \u2013 A recent financial audit of the City of Defiance (Defiance County) by Auditor of State Dave Yost\u2019s office has returned a clean audit report. The city\u2019s excellent record keeping has qualified it for the Auditor of State Award with Distinction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood finance is important to everything government does,\u201d Auditor Yost said. \u201cSound budgetary decisions depend on clean and accurate books.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Auditor of State Award with Distinction is presented to local governments and school districts upon the completion of a financial audit. Entities that receive the award meet the following criteria of a \u201cclean\u201d audit report:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The entity must file timely financial reports with the Auditor of State\u2019s office in the form of a CAFR (Comprehensive Annual Financial Report);<br \/>\n\u2022 The audit report does not contain any findings for recovery, material citations, material weaknesses, significant deficiencies, Single Audit findings or questioned costs;<br \/>\n\u2022 The entity\u2019s management letter contains no comments related to:<br \/>\no Ethics referrals<br \/>\no Questioned costs less than $10,000<br \/>\no Lack of timely report submission<br \/>\no Reconciliation<br \/>\no Failure to obtain a timely Single Audit<br \/>\no Findings for recovery less than $100<br \/>\no Public meetings or public records<br \/>\n\u2022 No other financial or other concerns exist that involve eligible entity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbus \u2013 A recent financial audit of the City of Defiance (Defiance County) by Auditor of State Dave Yost\u2019s office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2452],"tags":[5789,543,5788,12],"class_list":["post-15212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial","tag-audit","tag-award","tag-defiance-city","tag-ohio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Defiance-College.jpg?fit=894%2C552&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-3Xm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 10:33:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}