Financial Report

 

 


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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT

 

The Board of Directors
Northwestern Legal Services
Erie, Pennsylvania

We have audited the accompanying statement of financial position of Northwestern Legal Services (NWLS) as of June 30, 1999, and the related statements of activities, functional expenses and cash flows for the year then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of NWLS's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.

We conducted our audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United States. 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 opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of NWLS as of June 30, 1999, and the changes in its net assets and its cash flows for the year then ended in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles.

In accordance with Government Auditing Standards, we have also issued our report dated August 18, 1999 on our consideration of NWLS's internal control over financial reporting and our tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws, regulations, contracts and grants.

Our audit was performed for the purpose of forming an opinion on the basic financial statements of NWLS taken as a whole. The supplementary information on pages 14 to 15 is presented for purposes of additional analysis and is not a required part of the financial statements of NWLS. The accompanying schedule of federal awards is presented for purposes of additional analysis as required by U. S. Office of Management and Budget Circular A-133, Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations, and is also not a required part of the basic financial statements. Such information has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly stated, in all material respects, in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole.

 

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
August 18, 1999

 

 

 


NORTHWESTERN LEGAL SERVICES

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

JUNE 30, 1999
(WITH COMPARATIVE TOTALS FOR JUNE 30, 1998)

 

ASSETS

1999
1998

Cash and cash equivalents
266,844
225,796
Client escrow funds
70,449
69,042
Accounts receivable

Pennsylvania Legal Services
39,369
58,285
Other
8,032
4,322
Prepaid expenses
35,567
16,459
Furniture and equipment
402,391
456,947
Accumulated depreciation
(333,276)
(384,665)

Total assets
$ 489,376
$446,186

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
$ 11,307
$ 14,881
Accrued compensated absences
40,568
41,947
Payroll taxes payable
2,722
3,315
Client trust deposits
70,448
69,042
Refundable advances - Legal Service Corporation
60,119
57,082

Total liabilities
185,164
186,267

Net assets

Unrestricted
303,712
259,919
Temporarily restricted
500
       -     

Total net assets
304,212
259,919

Total liabilities and net assets
$ 489,376
$ 446,186


The accompanying notes are an integral
part of these financial statements.

 

 


 

NORTHWESTERN LEGAL SERVICES

STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES

YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1999
(WITH COMPARATIVE TOTALS FOR 1998)

 

Unrestricted
Temporarily
Restricted
Total
1999
Total
1998

Revenues and other support

Contracts and grants
$ 1,405,733
$       -     
$ 1,405,733
$ 1,368,136
Contributions

In-kind
95,980
-      
95,980
183,202
Other
-       
500
500
-       
Interest income
8,359
-    
8,359
10,813
DAP equitable payments
53,087
-     
53,087
45,400
Other income
17,753
-     
17,753
4,806

Total revenue
1,580,912
500
1,581,412
1,612,357

Expenses

Program services
1,199,946
-    
1,199,946
1,281,389
Management and general
337,173
-    
337,173
370,438
Fund raising
-    
-    
-
445

Total expenses
1,537,119
-    
1,537,119
1,652,272

Change in net assets
43,793
500
44,293
(39,915)

Net assets - beginning
259,919
-    
259,919
299,834

Net assets - ending
$ 303,712
$ 500
$ 304,212
$ 259,919


The accompanying notes are an integral
part of these financial statements.