Press Release from Ed Hatchett,
Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts

Subject: Northern Kentucky Educational Cooperative Receives Clean Audit Opinion
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Audit online at: http://www.auditor.ky.gov/Public/Audit_Reports/Archive/2000NKECaudit.pdf

Commonwealth of Kentucky
Auditor of Public Accounts
144 Capitol Annex
Frankfort, KY 40601

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(Frankfort - February 22, 2001) The Northern Kentucky Cooperative for Educational Services, Inc. (NKCES) received an unqualified auditor’s opinion for the year ending June 30, 2000, although the co-op was cited for failing to properly account for its fixed assets and for not adequately collateralizing its public deposits.

State Auditor Ed Hatchett said his office compiled the co-op’s financial statement so that the audit could be performed.

NKCES has 16 member school districts and an annual budget of $2.8 million. The audit was performed by the CPA firm of Charles T. Mitchell Company, LLP, for the State Auditor’s office.

NKCES is one of nine Kentucky school co-ops required to be audited under a bill passed during the 2000 General Assembly. The bill makes the State Auditor responsible for the audits and permits private CPAs to perform the fieldwork.

 

Edward B. Hatchett Jr.
Auditor of Public Accounts
144 Capitol Annex
Frankfort, KY 40601
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www.auditor.ky.gov/