Governance Communication

Town of Wickenburg — Regular Meeting (2025-03-17)

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The Honorable Mayor and 
  Members of the Town Council 
Town of Wickenburg, Arizona 
Wickenburg, Arizona 
 
We have audited the financial statements of the governmental activities, business-type activities, each major fund, 
and the aggregate remaining fund information of Town of Wickenburg, Arizona (“Town”) for the year ended June 
30, 2024 and have issued or report thereon dated January 26, 2025. Professional standards require that we provide 
you with information about our responsibilities under generally accepted auditing standards as well as certain 
information related to the planned scope and timing of our audit. Professional standards also require that we 
communicate to you the following information related to our audit. 
 
Our Responsibility in Relation to the Financial Statement Audit 
As communicated in our engagement letter dated August 2, 2024, our responsibility, as described by professional 
standards, is to form and express an opinions about whether the financial statements that have been prepared by 
management with your oversight are presented fairly, in all material respects, in accordance with accounting 
principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Our audit of the financial statements does not relieve 
you or management of your respective responsibilities. 
 
Our responsibility, as prescribed by professional standards, is to plan and perform our audit to obtain reasonable, 
rather than absolute, assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit 
of financial statements includes consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing 
audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the 
effectiveness of the entity’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, as part of our audit, we considered 
the internal control of Town of Wickenburg, Arizona solely for the purpose of determining our audit procedures and 
not to provide any assurance concerning such internal control. 
 
We are also responsible for communicating significant matters related to the audit that are, in our professional 
judgment, relevant to your responsibilities in overseeing the financial reporting process. We have provided our 
report on internal control over financial reporting and on compliance and other matters dated January 26, 2025. 
 
Planned Scope and Timing of the Audit 
We conducted our audit consistent with the planned scope and timing we previously communicated in our 
engagement letter. 
 
Compliance with All Ethics Requirements Regarding Independence 
The engagement team and our firm have complied with all relevant ethical requirements regarding independence.

Governing Board 
Town of Wickenburg, Arizona 
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Significant Risks Identified 
We have identified the following significant risks: 1) Risk of revenue being recognized and recorded in the proper 
period as well as for fraud risk concerns, 2) Risk related to the accounting estimate of useful lives of capital assets 
and related depreciation methods, 3) Risk of improperly recorded year-end expenditures  
 
These significant risks have been identified and related test work was performed over these areas on a risk-based 
audit approach 
 
Significant Audit Findings 
 
Qualitative Aspects of Accounting Practices 
Management is responsible for the selection and use of appropriate accounting policies. The significant accounting 
policies used by Town of Wickenburg, Arizona are described in Note 1 to the financial statements.  
 
We noted no transactions entered into by Town of Wickenburg, Arizona during the year for which there is a lack of 
authoritative guidance or consensus. All significant transactions have been recognized in the financial statements 
in the proper period. 
 
Accounting estimates 
Accounting estimates are an integral part of the financial statements prepared by management and are based on 
management’s knowledge and experience about past and current events and assumptions about future events. 
Certain accounting estimates are particularly sensitive because of their significance to the financial statements and 
because of the possibility that future events affecting them may differ significantly from those expected. The most 
sensitive estimates affecting the financial statements were: 
 
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Management’s estimate of the useful lives of capital assets is based on an analysis of the assets’ condition 
and the Town’s previous experience. We evaluated the key factors and assumptions used to develop the 
useful lives of capital assets in determining that they are reasonable in relation to the financial statements 
taken as a whole. 
 
Financial statement disclosures 
Certain financial statement disclosures are particularly sensitive because of their significance to financial statement 
users. There was no financial statement disclosure that were particularly sensitive during the current year.  
 
The financial statement disclosures are neutral, consistent, and clear. 
 
Difficulties Encountered in Performing the Audit 
We encountered no significant difficulties in dealing with management in performing and completing our audit.  
 
Uncorrected Misstatements 
For purposes of this communication, professional standards require us to accumulate all known and likely 
misstatements identified during the audit, other than those that we believe are trivial, and communicate them to 
the appropriate level of management. Further, professional standards require us to also communicate the effect of 
uncorrected misstatements related to prior periods on the relevant classes of transactions, account balances or 
disclosures, and the financial statements as a whole and each applicable opinion unit. We noted no uncorrected 
misstatements during the current fiscal year.

Governing Board 
Town of Wickenburg, Arizona 
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Corrected Misstatements 
The following material audit adjustments were brought to management’s attention, and management agreed with 
them: Reclassification entries were necessary to convert the Town’s accounting records from the modified accrual 
basis of accounting for governmental funds into the full accrual basis of accounting for government-wide 
accounting. In addition, the following material audit adjustments were proposed and subsequently recorded by 
management:  
 
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Increase Town Sales Tax and State Shared revenues by $206,224 and reduce these same revenues 
by $282,812 due to improper cutoff of revenues. Also, an audit adjustment was recorded to reduce 
SLFRF (ARPA) intergovernmental revenues and increase the unearned grant revenue balance by 
$1,533,080.  
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Accumulated depreciation and depreciation expense for Governmental Activities capital assets 
required adjustments of $419,945 and $313,421, respectively. Business-type activities required an 
adjustment to depreciation expense of $508,454 to properly reconcile subsidiary ledgers to the 
working trial balance. Lastly, infrastructure assets were improperly classified as furniture and 
equipment. A reclassifying entry of $578,502 was required to correct the error. 
o 
We noted $974,496 of deposits in transit that were incorrectly recorded. These amounts should 
have been recorded as receivables at fiscal year-end. An audit entry was recorded to correct this 
error.  
 
Disagreements with Management 
For purposes of this letter, a disagreement with management is a financial accounting, reporting, or auditing matter, 
whether or not resolved to our satisfaction, that could be significant to the financial statements or the auditor’s 
report. We are pleased to report that no such disagreements arose during the course of our audit. 
 
Management Representation 
We will request certain representations from management that are to be included in the management 
representation letter dated the date of the finalized audit report. 
 
Management Consultations with Other Independent Accountant 
In some cases, management may decide to consult with other accountants about auditing and accounting matters, 
similar to obtaining a “second opinion” on certain situations. If a consultation involves application of an accounting 
principle to Town of Wickenburg, Arizona’s financial statements or a determination of the type of auditor’s opinion 
that may be expressed on those statements, our professional standards require the consulting accountant to check 
with us to determine that the consultant has all the relevant facts. To our knowledge, there were no such 
consultations with other accountants. 
 
Other Audit Findings or Issues 
We generally discuss a variety of matters, including the application of accounting principles and auditing standards, 
with management each year prior to retention as Town of Wickenburg, Arizona’s auditors. However, these 
discussions occurred in the normal course of our professional relationship and our responses were not a condition 
to our retention.

Governing Board 
Town of Wickenburg, Arizona 
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Other Matters 
We applied certain limited procedures to required supplementary information (RSI) that supplements the basic 
financial statements. Our procedures consisted of inquiries of management regarding 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 did 
not audit the RSI and do not express an opinion or provide any assurance on the RSI. 
 
Our auditors’ opinion, the audited financial statements, and the notes to financial statements should only be used 
in their entirety. Inclusion of the audited financial statements in a document you prepare, such as an annual report, 
should be done only with our prior approval and review of the document. 
 
Restriction on Use 
This information is intended solely for the information and use of the governing board and management of Town 
of Wickenburg, Arizona and is not intended to be, and should not be, used by anyone other than these specified 
parties. 
 
Very truly yours, 
 
 
 
CWDL Certified Public Accountants 
January 26, 2025 
Mesa, Arizona