My WebLink
|
Help
|
About
|
Sign Out
Home
Browse
Search
2010 - 02-01-10 Regular Meeting
public access
>
Clerk
>
MINUTES
>
2010
>
2010 - 02-01-10 Regular Meeting
Metadata
Thumbnails
Annotations
Entry Properties
Last modified
2/24/2010 10:33:33 AM
Creation date
2/24/2010 10:33:01 AM
Metadata
Fields
Template:
Admin-Clerk
Document Type
Minutes
Committee
Board of Commissioners
There are no annotations on this page.
Document management portal powered by Laserfiche WebLink 9 © 1998-2015
Laserfiche.
All rights reserved.
/
8
PDF
Print
Pages to print
Enter page numbers and/or page ranges separated by commas. For example, 1,3,5-12.
After downloading, print the document using a PDF reader (e.g. Adobe Reader).
View images
View plain text
800w 23 r4(;i •i -A- <br />MARTIN 4o- STARNES <br />& ASSOCIATES, CPAs, P.A. <br />".4 Professional-4ssoclalion of Certified Pablic.4ccountanls and:llanagemenr Consallaitts" <br />January 11, 2010 <br />Lisa Minter <br />Lee County, North Carolina <br />PO Box 1968 <br />Sanford, NC 27331 . <br />Dear Ms. Minter: <br />Thank you for allowing our firm to provide audit services to Lee County for the year ended June <br />30, 2009. We are looking forward to a long relationship with the County that will allow us to <br />become more efficient in our procedures and offer even better management suggestions as a <br />result of our knowledge of the County's operations. <br />The audit relationship is much more than a commodity product, therefore, the Local Government <br />Commission does not require the services to be re-bid at the end of a service agreement. We are <br />proud of the level of service we offer and believe that to be the reason we have a near 100% <br />renewal rate with our government clients. <br />The following is our proposed fees for 2010 - 2014. We request the.County accept our fee <br />commitment to allow us to plan for the future and to allow the County to budget and plan as <br />well. We understand the economic environment we are all in and have taken that into <br />consideration with our fee proposal. We are able to conservatively propose fees in a long-term <br />agreement so that we can count on the continuity of the relationship in the design of our audit <br />templates and procedures, knowing we will recoup the set-up costs over several years. <br />In the past few years, much talk has been made about mandatory auditor rotations. This concept <br />in fact is related to the audit team, not the audit firm. We are required by our auditing standards <br />to maintain our independence and we can assure the County that Martin Starnes & Associates <br />takes compliance with the independence standard seriously. We rotate our audit teams as a <br />normal course of business due to staff growth. We re-invent the audit process on each year <br />during the planning stage to make sure we are addressing the pertinent risk areas of the County's <br />audit. Quite frankly, we study trends, and therefore, a long audit relationship, if managed <br />properly, is a great benefit to the County. <br />730 13th Avenue Drive SE + Hickory, North Carolina 28602 • Phone 828-327-2727 ♦ Fax 828-328-2324 <br />13 South Center Street ♦ Taylorsville, North Carolina 28681 ♦ Phone 828-632-9025 ♦ Fax 828-632-9085 <br />Toll Free Both Locations 1-800-946-0585 ♦ Website: www.mmdmtames.com <br />
The URL can be used to link to this page
Your browser does not support the video tag.