This includes remitting compensation to county employees, and preparing financial reports for federal and state grantor agencies. The Finance Department is responsible for financial management, including budgeting and monitoring of major revenues and expenditures. They review options for the financing of capital needs, such as the financing of ongoing school construction and Courthouse renovation. In addition, the Finance Department oversees the purchasing of supplies and materials in accordance with state laws. The Finance Department is always investigating cost effective alternatives to current practices in order to provide the least expensive method for fulfilling the County s duties and responsibilities to its citizens.
State law requires all governments to be audited annually.
The Finance Department assists the independent audit firm by providing a variety of schedules and other data. Finance also prepares the comprehensive annual financial report, which conforms with generally accepted accounting principles. This was the eleventh consecutive year that the government has achieved this prestigious award. In order to be awarded a Certificate of Achievement, a government unit must publish an easily readable and efficiently organized comprehensive annual financial report. This report must satisfy both generally accepted accounting principles and applicable legal requirements.