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| AUDITORS OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | ||
| JOHN C. GERAGOSIAN | STATE CAPITOL 210 CAPITOL AVENUE HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT 06106-1559 |
ROBERT M. WARD |
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT
Governor Dannel P, Malloy
Members of the General Assembly
We have audited the accompanying 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 Connecticut as of and for the year ended June 30, 2011, which collectively comprise the State's basic financial statements as listed in the table of contents. These financial statements are the responsibility of the State of Connecticut's management. Our responsibility is to express opinions on these financial statements based on our audit. We did not audit:
Government-wide Financial Statements
Fund Financial Statements
Those financial statements were audited by other auditors whose reports thereon have been furnished to us, and our opinion, insofar as it relates to the amounts included for the aforementioned funds and accounts, is based on the reports of the other auditors, All of the aforementioned audits were conducted in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America, In addition, the audits of the Special Transportation Fund, Transportation Special Tax Obligations Fund, Drinking Water Fund, Clean Water Fund, Bradley International Airport, Connecticut Development Authority, Capital City Economic Development Authority, Connecticut Lottery Corporation, Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority, Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority, Connecticut Higher Education Supplemental Loan Authority, Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, and Connecticut Innovations Incorporated were conducted in accordance with standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United States.
We conducted our audit in accordance with 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. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. The audits of the Bradley International Airport Parking Facility, John Dempsey Hospital, Connecticut State University, Connecticut Community-Technical Colleges and the University of Connecticut Foundation were not conducted in accordance with Government Auditing Standards. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation, We believe that our audit and the reports of other auditors provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
The State of Connecticut adopted the provisions of Governmental Accounting Standards Board ("GASB") Statement No, 45, Accounting and Financial Reporting by Employers for Postemployment Benefits Other Than Pensions (OPEB) in 2008, This standard modifies the method that governments have reported the cost of providing such benefits, primarily retiree health care. It requires the systematic, accrual-basis measurement and recognition of OPEB cost (expense) over a period that approximates employees' years of service and the disclosure of information about the actuarial accrued liabilities associated with OPEB and whether and to what extent progress is being made in funding the plan. Our audit disclosed that the required actuarial valuation was not performed within the two year window permitted by GASB and the State of Connecticut did not present information pertaining to the Annual OPEB Cost and Net OPEB Obligation, Funded Status and Funding Progress, and Actuarial Methods and Assumptions for the State Employee OPEB Plan in Note 14 of the financial statements in compliance with GASB requirements. Our audit also disclosed that the Annual OPEB Cost and Net OPEB Obligation reported on Note 14 of the financial statements and the Net OPEB Obligation reported as Other Long Term Liabilities on Note 17 of the financial statements for the State Employee OPEB Plan presented data as of June 30, 2010.
In our opinion, except for the matters described in the preceding paragraph,
based upon our audit and the
reports of other auditors, the financial statements referred to above present
fairly, in all material respects, the
respective financial position of the governmental activities, the business-type
activities, the aggregate discretely
presented component units, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund
information, for the State of
Connecticut, as of June 30, 2011, and the respective budgetary comparison for
the General Fund and the
Transportation Fund, and the respective changes in financial position and cash
flows, where applicable, thereof
for the year then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally
accepted in the United States of
America.
In accordance with Government Auditing Standards, we have also issued our report dated February 24, 2012, on our consideration of the State of Connecticut's internal control over financial reporting and on our tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws, regulations, contracts and grant agreements and other matters. The purpose of that report is to describe the scope of our testing of internal control over financial reporting and compliance and the results of that testing, and not to provide an opinion on the internal control over financial reporting or on compliance. That report will be issued under separate cover in the State of Connecticut Single Audit Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2011, and is an integral part of an audit performed in accordance with Government Auditing Standards and should be considered in assessing the results of our audit.
As discussed in Note 25 to the financial statements, the State of Connecticut implemented Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 54, Fund Balance Reporting and Governmental Fund Type Definitions for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011.
The management's discussion and analysis, the schedules of funding progress for pension and other postemployment benefit plans and the schedules of employer contributions for pension and other post-employment benefit plans, as listed in the table of contents, are not a required part of the basic financial statements but are supplementary information required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. We have applied certain limited procedures, which consisted principally of inquiries of management regarding the methods of measurement and presentation of the required supplementary information. However, we did not audit this information and do not express an opinion on it As a result of such limited procedures, we found that the State of Connecticut has not presented data in the Schedule of Funding Progress and Schedule of Employer Contributions for the State Employee OPEB plan that accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America have determined is necessary to supplement, although not required to be part of, the basic financial statements.
Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming opinions on the financial statements that collectively comprise the State of Connecticut's basic financial statements. The introductory section, combining and individual nonmajor fund financial statements, and statistical tables are presented for purposes of additional analysis and are not a required part of the basic financial statements. The combining and individual nonmajor fund financial statements have been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic financial statements and, in our opinion, are fairly stated, in all material respects in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole. The introductory section and statistical tables have not been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic financial statements and, accordingly, we express no opinion on them.
| John C. Geragosian | Robert M. Ward |
| Auditor of Public Accounts | Auditor of Public Accounts |
February 24, 2012
State Capitol
Hartford, Connecticut