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Report On Internal Control Over Financial Reporting And On Compliance And Other <br />Matters Based On An Audit of Financial Statements Performed In Accordance <br />With <br />Government Auditing Standards <br />To the Board of Commissioners <br />Orange County, North Carolina <br />We have audited the accompanying financial statements of the governmental activities, the business-type <br />activities, the discretely presented component unit, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund <br />information of Orange County, North Carolina, as of and for the year ended June 30, 2012, which <br />collectively comprises and have issued our report thereon dated <br />November 20, 2012.Our report includes a reference to other auditors. We conducted our audit in <br />accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America and the standards <br />applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller <br />General of the United States. Other auditors audited the financial statements of the Orange County ABC <br />The financial statements of the <br />Orange County ABC Board were not audited in accordance with Government Auditing Standards. <br />Internal Control Over Financial Reporting <br />Management of Orange County is responsible for establishing and maintaining effective internal control <br />over financial reporting. In planning and performing our audit, we considered Orange County <br />control over financial reporting as a basis for designing our auditing procedures for the purpose of <br />expressing our opinions on the financial statements, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on <br />the effectiveness of Orange County Accordingly, we do not <br />express an opinion on the effectiveness of Orange County <br />Adeficiency in internal control exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow <br />management or employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent, or <br />detect and correct, misstatements on a timely basis. Amaterial weakness is a deficiency, or a <br />combination of deficiencies, in internal control, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material <br />, on a <br />timely basis. <br />Our consideration of internal control over financial reporting was for the limited purpose described in the <br />first paragraph of this section and was not designed to identify all deficiencies in internal control over <br />financial reporting that might be deficiencies, significant deficiencies, or material weaknesses. We did <br />not identify any deficiencies in internal control over financial reporting that we consider to be material <br />weaknesses, as defined above. <br />730 13th Avenue Drive SE Hickory, North Carolina 28602 Phone 828-327-2727 Fax 828-328-2324 <br />13 South Center Street Taylorsville, North Carolina 28681 Phone 828-632-9025 Fax 828-632-9085 <br />Toll Free Both Locations 1-800-948-0585Website: www.martinstarnes.com <br />138 <br /> <br />