State & Local Reports

What Was Performed? The release of the State of Delaware Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) for Fiscal Year 2020 was performed.Why This Engagement? The State of Delaware CAFR program was implemented in 1995. The purpose of a CAFR is to be transparent about the use of taxpayer’s money and to provide an accounting of all expenditures. The CAFR does this by including dozens of basic and more intricate financial reports along with notes, narratives, and supporting data. The State’s CAFR includes all funds, departments and organizations, bureaus, boards, commissions, offices of elected officials and authorities that comprise the State’s legal entity. Discretely presented component units, which are legally separate entities that the State is financially accountable, are also included. These entities have had their own financial statement audits, some of which the office of the State Auditor managed: Delaware State Housing Authority*, Diamond State Port Corporation*, Riverfront Development Corporation, Delaware State University, Delaware Agricultural Lands Preservation Foundation*, and 23 charter schools. In addition, the Department of Transportation* and the Delaware State Lottery* have had separate financial statement audits and are included as business-type activities in the State of Delaware CAFR. Business-type activities are activities intended to recover all or a portion of their costs through user fees and charges. The CAFR is an important tool used to analyze the State’s overall financial position for purposes of bond financing and establishing financial transparency and credibility with its creditors and oversight agencies.This engagement was performed in accordance with 29 Del. C. §2906(a). This CAFR audit report was conducted using generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS) in the United States of America. The internal control report and findings of the CAFR, according to generally accepted government auditing standards (GAGAS), will be presented at a later date.

We have audited, in accordance with the auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards issued by the Comptroller General of the United States, the financial statements of the governmental activities, the business‐type activities, the aggregate discretely presented component units, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of the State of Hawaii (the State) as of and for the year ended June 30, 2020, and the related notes to the financial statements, which collectively comprise the State’s basic financial statements and have issued our report thereon dated December 30, 2020.

What Was Performed? A financial statement audit was performed to review the University of Delaware’sactions for managing and spending state funds for fiscal year 2020.Why This Engagement? In January 2019, under new leadership, the Office of the State Auditor thoroughlyreviewed Delaware Code. Upon review, it was revealed that the Office of the State Auditor was lacking inparticipation in jointly selecting an audit firm with the University of Delaware to perform their financialreport.This engagement was performed in accordance with 29 Del. C. §2906(h) and 14 Del. C. § 5109. It requiresa separate audit to be conducted for the use of state funds. The Code permits joint section of the auditingfirm with input from the State Auditor’s Office and the University of Delaware.What Was Found? The financial statements were presented fairly.We found that $111.2 million of the $125.3 million of state funds was spent on payroll and benefits. Basedon the samples tested, the majority of the payroll amounts tested were comingled.The General Assembly has spelled it out in the University’s charter at 14 Del. C. §5109 that if theUniversity commingles funds from a state appropriation with other funds, the audit of state appropriatedfunds may include the commingled nonstate funds. § 5109 Audit of accounts.27 Del. Laws, c. 117, § 5; Code 1915, § 2337; 32 Del. Laws, c. 166, § 1; Code 1935, § 2779; 14 Del. C.1953, § 5109; 54 Del. Laws, c. 256, § 2.;It also states” (e) This section shall not affect § 5109 of Title 14 which shall remain in full force andeffect; however, any other provision which stands in conflict with this section shall be null and void.”

We have audited, in accordance with the auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards issued by the Comptroller General of the United States, the financial statements of the governmental activities, the business‐type activities, the aggregate discretely presented component units, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of the State of Hawaii (the State) as of and for the year ended June 30, 2020, and the related notes to the financial statements, which collectively comprise the State’s basic financial statements and have issued our report thereon dated December 30, 2020.