13-48 Lower Ark Valley WCD - Grant Request

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Lt.. J r ■ M 4 M N w 4 HANCOCK FROESE & COMPANY LLC CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS 801 SOUTH EIGHTH STREET ROCKY FORD, COLORADO 81067 Patrick A. Hancock CPA 719 - 688-0812 Andrew H. Froese CPA 719 -9O -1962 INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT Board of Directors Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District We have audited the accompanying financial statements of the governmental activities, the business- type activities, and each major fund, of the Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District as of and for the year ended December 31, 2011, which collectively comprise the District's basic financial statements as listed in the table of contents. These financial statements are the responsibility of the District's management. Our responsibility Is to express opinions 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. 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 opinions. In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairiy, in all material respects, the respective financial position of the governmental activities, the business type activities, and each major fund, of the Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District as of December 31, 2011, 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. Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America require that the management's discussion and analysis and budgetary comparison information, as listed In the table of contents, be presented to supplement the basic financial statements. Such lnformation, 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 sufficient evidence to express an opinion or provide any assurance. March 30, 2012 HANCOCK FROESE & COMPANY LLC