Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First

Kimball district audit complete, no major issues

The Kimball School District’s 2015-16 financial audit is complete with no concerns according to Julie Peetz, of Rauner and Associates, who reported to the Kimball Board of Education at their Nov. 7 meeting.

Rauner and Associates has been performing school audits since 1979 and the company has 11 schools in the Nebraska Panhandle.

Peetz did present suggestions to make procedures better. One such suggestion, the lack of segregation of duties, is a standard suggestion, according to Peetz.

“One of them is always the lack of segregation of duties,” Peetz said. “Probably 99 percent of all...