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| AUDITORS OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | ||
| STATE CAPITOL 210 CAPITOL AVENUE HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT 06106-1559 |
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, 2016, 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, 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 the purpose 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, 2016, 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 22 and 24 to the basic financial statements, in
the 2016 fiscal year the State of Connecticut adopted Governmental Accounting
Standards Board (GASB) Statement No. 72, Fair Value Measurement and
Application. This statement provides guidance for determining a fair value
measurement for financial reporting purposes, for applying fair value to certain
investments and for disclosures related to all fair value measurements. As a
result of the implementation of GASB Statement No. 72 the State reported a
restatement for a change in accounting principle by an increase of its beginning
net position for governmental funds and fiduciary funds totaling $182 thousand
and $214.8 million, respectively. The amounts reported for the beginning and
ending net position reflect a change in methodology of the State Treasurer for
valuing investments that do not have a readily determinable market value. 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 December 30, 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, 2016, 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
Auditor of Public Accounts
December 30, 2016
State Capitol
Hartford, Connecticut