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Report of Independent Public Accountants Members of The Board of Education of Harford County Bel Air, Maryland We have audited the accompanying financial statements of the governmental activities, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of Harford County Public Schools, a component unit of Harford County, Maryland as of June 30, 2012, and for the year then ended, which collectively comprise the Harford County Public Schools’ basic financial statements as listed in the table of contents. These financial statements are the responsibility of Harford County Public Schools’ management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. 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 of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the respective financial position of the governmental activities, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information as of June 30, 2012, and the changes in its financial position and the statement of revenues and respective budgetary comparison for the general fund for the year then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. In accordance with Government Auditing Standards, we have issued our report dated September 17, 2012 on our consideration of Harford County Public Schools’ internal control over financial reporting and 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 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. Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America require that the management’s discussion and analysis, schedule of funding progress, and budgetary comparison 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 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 evidence sufficient to express an opinion or provide any assurance. 200 International Circle Suite 5500 Hunt Valley Maryland 21030 P 410-584-0060 F 410-584-0061 15
Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming opinions on the financial statements that collectively comprise Harford County Public Schools’ basic financial statements. The accompanying school construction fund schedule of expenditures by project, agency fund schedule of increases, decreases and fund balances and combining statement of fiduciary net assets-Agency Funds, and combining statement of changes in assets and liabilities- Agency Funds (collectively, the Statements) are presented for purposes of additional analysis and are not a required part of the basic financial statements. Such information is the responsibility of management and was 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 information is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the financial statements as a whole. Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming opinions on the financial statements that collectively comprise Harford County Public Schools’ basic financial statements. 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 it. Hunt Valley, MD September 17, 2012 16
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Page 5 and 6: Harford County Public Schools Table
Page 7 and 8: Introductory Section Katerina Lomis
Page 9: Board of Education of Harford Count
Page 12 and 13: actual enrollment of 38,222 student
Page 14 and 15: Relevant financial policies Primary
Page 17: Financial Section Christian Moriart
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