Financial Statement Audits, Fiscal Years 2012 and 2011, U.S. Department of Education Special Purpose Financial Statements

The Department received a clean opinion on its FY 2012 and FY 2011 special-purpose financial statements. However, like the other financial statement audits, the audit reports included a material weakness related to controls surrounding the Department’s Debt Management Collection System and ACS Education Servicing System, and significant deficiencies related to controls surrounding the credit reform estimation processes and information systems. In addition, the Department’s review procedures failed to identify errors in the reclassified financial statements and in the intergovernmental balances reported.