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| AUDITORS OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | ||
| JOHN C. GERAGOSIAN | STATE CAPITOL 210 CAPITOL AVENUE HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT 06106-1559 |
ROBERT M. WARD |
Governor Dannel P. Malloy
Members of the General Assembly
Report on the Financial Statements
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, 2015, and the related notes to the financial statements, which collectively comprise the state's basic
financial statements as listed in the table of contents.
Management's Responsibility for the Financial Statements
Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these
financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America;
this includes the design, implementation, and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation
and fair presentation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or
error.
Auditor's Responsibility
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.
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 from material misstatement. In addition, the financial statements of the Special Transportation Fund, Transportation Special Tax Obligations Fund, Drinking Water Fund, Clean Water Fund, Connecticut Airport Authority, Capital Region Development Authority, Connecticut Lottery Corporation, Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority, Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority, Connecticut Health Insurance Exchange, Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, Connecticut Innovations Incorporated and the Connecticut Green Bank were audited by other auditors in accordance with standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United States. The audits of the financial statements of the Bradley International Airport Parking Facility, John Dempsey Hospital, Connecticut State University System, Connecticut Community Colleges and the University of Connecticut Foundation and University of Connecticut Law School Foundation were not conducted in accordance with Government Auditing Standards.
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor's judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity's preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for thepurpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity's internal control. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinions.
Opinions
In our opinion, 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, 2015,
and the respective budgetary comparison for the General Fund and the Transportation Fund, and the respective
changes in financial position and where applicable, cash flows thereof for the year then ended in conformity
with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Emphasis of Matter
As discussed in Notes 23 and 25 to the basic financial statements, in the 2015
fiscal year the State of Connecticut adopted Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement No.
68, Accounting and Financial Reporting for Pensions. This statement revises accounting and
financial reporting for pensions by state and local government employers. As a result of the implementation of GASB
Statement No. 68 the State reported a restatement for a change in accounting principle by a net reduction
of its beginning net position for governmental funds totaling $25,552,318,000. The amounts reported for ending net
position reflect the newly required net pension assets, deferred outflows of resources, net pension
liabilities, and deferred inflows of resources related to the State's participation in defined benefit retirement
systems. Our opinions are not modified in respect to this matter.
Other Matters
Required Supplementary Information
Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America require
that the management's discussion and analysis, the budgetary comparison schedules, the pension plans
schedules and information and the other post-employment benefits schedule, as listed in the accompanying table
of contents be presented to supplement the basic financial statements. Such information, although not a part
of the basic financial statements, is required by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board who
considers it to be an essential part of financial reporting for placing the basic financial statements in an
appropriate operational, economic, or historical context. We have applied certain limited procedures to the required
supplementary information, in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of
America, which consisted of inquiries of management about the methods of preparing the information and
comparing the information for consistency with management's responses to our inquiries, the basic financial
statements, and other knowledge we obtained during the course of our audit of the basic financial statements. We
do not express an opinion or provide any assurance on the information because the limited procedures do not
provide us with sufficient evidence to express an opinion or provide any assurance.
Supplementary and Other Information
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 combining
and individual nonmajor fund financial statements 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 are the responsibility of management and were derived from and relates directly to the underlying accounting and other records used to prepare the financial statements. The information has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the financial statements and certain additional procedures, including comparing and reconciling such information directly to the underlying accounting and other records used to prepare the financial statements or to the financial statements themselves, and other additional procedures in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. In our opinion, the combining and individual nonmajor fund financial statements are fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the financial statements taken as a whole.
The introductory and statistical sections are presented for purposes of additional analysis and are not a required part of the basic financial statements. Such information has not been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic financial statements and, accordingly, we do not express an opinion or provide any assurance on them.
Other Reporting Required by Government Auditing Standards
In accordance with Government Auditing Standards, we have also issued our report
dated January 29, 2016, 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 Auditors' Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting and on Compliance and Other Matters for the
Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2015, State of Connecticut Comprehensive Annual Financial Report 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.
| John C. Geragosian | Robert M. Ward |
| Auditor of Public Accounts | Auditor of Public Accounts |
January 29, 2016
State Capitol
Hartford, Connecticut