City Saves Money by Taking Back Audits

Software helps Mobile, Ala., conduct its own audits, cut spending

Although in recent years the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) awarded Mobile, Ala.'s accounting department a Certificate of Excellence in financial reporting for its annual audit, a local accounting firm actually was performing the work. At the end of the vendor's contract, though, City Comptroller Patricia Aldrich already had decided that her department wanted to take the job in-house. "We wanted better control of our audits, and by doing them internally, we could do them faster," Aldrich says.

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