Maricopa County June 30, 2007 Single Audit

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A REPORT
TO THE
ARIZONA LEGISLATURE
Financial Audit Division
Single Audit
Maricopa County
Year Ended June 30, 2007
Debra K. Davenport
Auditor GeneralThe Auditor General is appointed by the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, a bipartisan committee composed of five
senators and five representatives. Her mission is to provide independent and impartial information and specific
recommendations to improve the operations of state and local government entities. To this end, she provides financial
audits and accounting services to the State and political subdivisions, investigates possible misuse of public monies, and
conducts performance audits of school districts, state agencies, and the programs they administer.
Copies of the Auditor General’s reports are free.
You may request them by contacting us at:
Office of the Auditor General
2910 N. 44th Street, Suite 410 • Phoenix, AZ 85018 • [phone]
Additionally, many of our reports can be found in electronic format at:
www.azauditor.govMaricopa County
Single Audit Reporting Package
Year Ended June 30, 2007


Table of Contents Page

Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting and on Compliance and
Other Matters Based on an Audit of Basic Financial Statements
Performed in Accordance with Government Auditing Standards 1

Report on Compliance with Requirements Applicable to Each Major Program
and on Internal Control over Compliance in Accordance with OMB Circular A-133 3

Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards 6

Schedule of Findings and Questioned Costs

Summary of Auditors’ Results 18

Financial Statement Findings 19

Federal Award Findings and Questioned Costs 34

County Responses

Corrective Action Plan 43

Summary Schedule of Prior Audit Findings 54

Report Issued Separately

Comprehensive Annual Financial Report






STATE OF ARIZONA
OFFICE OF THE
DEBRA K. DAVENPORT, CPA WILLIAM THOMSON AUDITOR GENERAL AUDITOR GENERAL DEPUTY AUDITOR GENERAL

Independent Auditors’ Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
and on Compliance and Other Matters Based on an Audit of Basic Financial
Statements Performed in Accordance with Government Auditing Standards



Members of the Arizona State Legislature

The Board of Supervisors of
Maricopa County, Arizona


We have audited the financial statements of the governmental activities, business-type activities,
aggregate discretely presented component units, each major fund, and aggregate remaining fund
information of Maricopa County as of and for the year ended June 30, 2007, which collectively comprise
the County’s basic financial statements, and have issued our report thereon dated June 12, 2008. Our
report was modified to include a reference to our reliance on other auditors. We conducted our audit in
accordance with U.S. generally accepted auditing standards and the standards applicable to financial
audits contained in Government Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United
States. Other auditors audited the financial statements of the Stadium District, Maricopa County
Accommodation Schools, Phoenix Regional Sports Commission, and Housing Authority of Maricopa
County, as described in our report on the County’s financial statements. The financial statements of the
Maricopa County Sports Commission were not audited by the other auditors in accordance with
Government Auditing Standards. This report includes our consideration of the results of the other auditors’
testing of internal control over financial reporting and compliance and other matters that are reported on
separately by those other auditors. However, this report, insofar as it relates to the results of the other
auditors, is based solely on the reports of the other auditors.

Internal Control over Financial Reporting

In planning and performing our audit, we considered the County’s internal control over financial reporting
as a basis for designing our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinions on the basic
financial statements, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the County’s
internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we do not express an opinion on the effectiveness of
the County’s internal control over financial reporting.

Our consideration of internal control over financial reporting was for the limited purpose described in the
preceding paragraph and would not necessarily identify all deficiencies in internal control over financial
reporting that might be significant deficiencies or material weaknesses. However, as discussed below, we
and the other auditors identified certain deficiencies in internal control over financial reporting that we
consider to be significant deficiencies.

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A control deficiency exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management or
employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent or detect
misstatements on a timely basis. A significant deficiency is a control deficiency, or combination of control
deficiencies, that adversely affects the County’s ability to initiate, authorize, record, process, or report
financial data reliably in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles such that there is more
than a remote likelihood that a misstatement of the County’s basic financial statements that is more than
inconsequential will not be prevented or detected by the County’s internal control. We consider items 07-
01 through 07-26 described in the accompanying Schedule of Findings and Questioned Costs to be
significant deficiencies in internal control over financial reporting.

A material weakness is a significant deficiency, or combination of significant deficiencies, that results in
more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of the financial statements will not be
prevented or detected by the County’s internal control.

Our consideration of internal control over financial reporting was for the limited purpose described in the
first paragraph of this section and would not necessarily identify all deficiencies in internal control that
might be significant deficiencies and, accordingly, would not necessarily disclose all significant
deficiencies that are also considered to be material weaknesses. However, of the significant deficiencies
described above, we consider items 07-01, 07-02, and 07-10 to be material weaknesses.

Compliance and Other Matters

As part of obtaining reasonable assurance about whether the County’s basic financial statements are free
of material misstatement, we performed tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws, regulations,
contracts, and grant agreements, noncompliance with which could have a direct and material effect on the
determination of financial statement amounts. However, providing an opinion on compliance with those
provisions was not an objective of our audit, and accordingly, we do not express such an opinion. The
results of our tests and those of the other auditors disclosed instances of noncompliance or other matters
that are required to be reported under Government Auditing Standards, and which are described in the
accompanying Schedule of Findings and Questioned Costs as items 07-07, and 07-13 through 07-20.

Maricopa County’s responses to the findings identified in our audit are presented on pages 43 through 53.
We did not audit the County’s responses and, accordingly, we express no opinion on them.

This report is intended solely for the information and use of the members of the Arizona State Legislature,
the Board of Supervisors, federal awarding agencies, and pass-through entities and is not intended to be
and should not be used by anyone other than these specified parties. However, this report is a matter of
public record, and its distribution is not limited.



Dennis L. Mattheisen, CPA
Financial Audit Director

June 12, 2008



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STATE OF ARIZONA
OFFICE OF THE
DEBRA K. DAVENPORT, CPA WILLIAM THOMSON AUDITOR GENERAL AUDITOR GENERAL DEPUTY AUDITOR GENERAL

Independent Auditors’ Report on Compliance with Requirements
Applicable to Each Major Program and on Internal Control over Compliance in
Accordance with OMB Circular A-133



Members of the Arizona State Legislature

The Board of Supervisors of
Maricopa County, Arizona

Compliance

We have audited the compliance of Maricopa County with the types of compliance requirements
described in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement
that are applicable to each of its major federal programs for the year ended June 30, 2007, except for that
portion of the federal programs administered by the Housing Authority of Maricopa County (Authority). The
Authority was audited by other auditors whose report has been furnished to us, and our opinion, i