Washington colleges and universities accept nearly all the college-level credits students earn in high school – if the students follow through on a crucial step in the transfer process, according to a report released today by the Office of the Washington State Auditor.
The clerk-treasurer of a small city in the Cascades misappropriated more than $900,000 in public funds over nearly a decade, despite warning signs that improper activity was occurring, the Office of the Washington State Auditor found in a fraud report issued today.
Each month, Washington relies on the aging Agency Financial Reporting System to process $4.3 billion in payments. In less than a year, the state plans to move to a new administrative system, a necessary but immensely complex information technology project affecting more than 100 agencies.
The project is overseen by the One Washington program, which chose Workday, a cloud-based enterprise resource planning system, to modernize the state's administrative systems.
The Marysville School District’s ability to keep operating is in doubt, based on its declining financial condition, according to an audit by the Office of the Washington State Auditor.
The district serves about 9,700 students, and its finances have eroded rapidly over the past year. Auditors found the district’s current financial position “raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.”
Like most states, Washington reports shortages of qualified special education staff. Without properly trained staff, school districts struggle to provide eligible students with important services like lessons to develop study skills, speech or physical therapy, behavior management and vocational education.
A Washington state employee misappropriated nearly $900,000 through fraudulent credit card purchases, the Office of the Washington State Auditor found in a fraud report released today. It is the largest internal misappropriation in a state agency in at least the last 15 years.
The report identifies $878,115 in misappropriations between 2019 and 2023 at the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH).
Our Office would like to thank every local government that filed its fiscal year 2023 annual report on time! This year, about 86 percent of local governments met the annual filing deadline (more than 1500 total), proving once again that compliance, accountability and transparency matter in Washington state.
A novel Washington program to help local governments quickly improve their cybersecurity was honored by the National State Auditors Association during its recent conference in Boise, Idaho.
Five years ago, the Office of the Washington State Auditor advised the town of Cusick that it had inadequate controls over its payroll and credit cards. Had the small government followed its audit recommendations then, it likely could have avoided more recent, and much larger, losses.