A new year has begun, which means it's time for cash-basis governments to close out last year and begin preparing annual financial reports. Annual reports for local governments with fiscal year ending 12/31 are due to the Office of the Washington State Auditor by May 30, 2026.
The State Auditor’s Office invites you to take an at-a-glance look at our work and activities during fiscal year 2025 in this interactive, digitally accessible PDF. We are proud of our efforts to work with local governments and state agencies to ensure accountability and transparency for public resources.
The State Auditor’s Office invites you to scroll through an interactive report of our activities during fiscal year 2024. We are proud of our efforts to work with local governments and state agencies to ensure accountability and transparency for public resources.
The State Auditor’s Office invites you to scroll through an interactive report of our activities during fiscal year 2023. We are proud of our efforts to work with local governments and state agencies to ensure accountability and transparency for public resources.
As the year comes to an end, we invite you to explore the interactive annual report for fiscal year 2022 below to learn more about our work with local governments and state agencies to ensure accountability and transparency for public resources.
Every year, we update the cash basis financial statement checklist so that you have the latest guidance as you prepare your government's annual report filing package. In addition to incorporating the most recent BARS changes, we also monitor audit results and make additional adjustments to help you check for common errors.
As the COVID-19 pandemic rolled on through 2021, Washington's public auditors kept up their essential work. The Office of the Washington State Auditor continued working closely—and remotely—with local governments and state agencies to ensure accountability and transparency for public resources.
2020 has been a year unlike any other. However, we at the Office of the Washington State Auditor still have a responsibility to report on what we've done this year.
We invite you to click through our interactive 2020 annual report below. Learn about the amount and kinds of audits and investigations we have done, including some high profile cases, as well as some of what we have planned for 2021. Look at an overview of our budget and funding. And discover what other work our Office performs as we strive to increase government transparency and accountability.
Take a trip through 2019 with the Office of the Washington State Auditor, tracking public dollars and exploring good government. The annual report this year is entirely digital – one more way we've changed our approach to sharing information during the pandemic.
We provide an objective examination of every government in Washington: every state agency, city, school district and much more. Each year, we issue thousands of reports that detail the results of many different kinds of audits. Let's hit the (virtual) road for a look at the numbers and what they mean.
On the public's behalf, the Office of the Washington State Auditor is on the trail of good government.