Auditing Firm Services

The vendor required to provide audit for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, which must be completed and submitted by June 1, 2026.
- The successful completion of the FY 2020 audit, the city intends to retain the selected firm to perform the audits for the subsequent backlog years (FY 2021 through FY 2025) and the current year (FY 2026) to bring the city into full compliance.
- Specific items:
•    Basic financial statements: including the government-wide financial statements, fund financial statements, and notes to the financial statements. 
•    Required supplementary information (RSI): management’s discussion and analysis (MD&A) and budgetary comparison schedules.
•    Supplementary information: combining and individual non-major fund financial statements and schedules. 
•    SPLOST reporting: a specific schedule of projects constructed with special purpose local option sales tax (SPLOST) proceeds, as required by state law.
- Auditor independence requirements
•    Independence requirements established under government auditing standards (yellow book). 
•    Provided bookkeeping, accounting, financial statement preparation, consulting, or related services to the city for the fiscal years subject to audit may be deemed not independent and may be disqualified from consideration in accordance with government auditing standards. 
•    Include a written statement affirming its independence in its technical proposal.