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ETERNAL VALUES INFINITE POTENTIAL <br />~7 ra WILHELMI <br />REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORT]NG AND ON <br />COMPLIANCE AND OTHER MATTERS BASED ON AN AUDIT OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS <br />PERFORMED 1N ACCORDANCE WTl'H GOVERNMENTAUDITING STANDARDS <br />Board of Directors <br />East Texas Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse <br />Longview, Texas <br />We have audited the financial statements of East Texas Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (a <br />nonprofit organization) as of and for the year ended August 31, 2009, and have issued our report thereon <br />dated December 21, 2009. We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally <br />accepted in the United States of America and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in <br />Government Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United States. <br />intemal Control Over Financial Renorting <br />In planning and performing our audit; we considered East Texas Council on Alcoholism and Drug <br />Abuse's internal control over financial reporting as a basis for. designing our auditing procedures for the <br />purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial statements, but not for the purpose of expressing an <br />opinion on the effectiveness of East Texas Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse's intemal control over <br />financial reporting. Accordingly, we do not express an opinion on the effectiveness of the Organization's <br />intemal control over financial reporting. <br />A control deficiency exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management or <br />employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent or detect <br />misstatements on a timely basis. A significant deficiency is a control deficiency, or combination of <br />control deficiencies, that adversely affects the organization's ability to initiate, authorize, record, process, <br />or report fmancial data reliably in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, such that <br />there is more than a remote likelihood that a misstatement of the organization's financial statements that is <br />more than inconsequential will not be prevented or detected by the organization's intemal control. <br />A material wealmess is a significant deficiency, or combination of significant deficiencies, that results in <br />more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of the financial statements will not be <br />prevented or detected by the organization's intemal control. <br />Our consideration of intemal control over financial reporting was for the limited purpose described in the <br />first paragraph of this section and would not necessarily identify all deficiencies in intemal control that <br />might be significant deficiencies or material wealrnesses. We did not identify any deficiencies in intemal <br />control over financial reporting that we considered to be material wealrnesses, as defined above. <br />PROTHRO. WILHELMI AND COMPANY, PLLC <br />CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS <br />6855 OAK HILL BOULEVARD • TYLER. TEXAS 75703 • TEL 903 534 8811 • FAX 903 534 8891 • WWW.PW-COMPANY.COM <br />