Search for "the real problem" with Anderson County must be completed.

Leave it to SSHM and his perfect call sign to miss the relevance, how revealing. LOL Suggesting that INTOSAI Auditing Standards have no relevance in Anderson, SC is a perfect example of the small mind stuck in self imposed ignorance.

-1-opinion

Maybe the reason people are talking about "limited" is to try to reach a middle ground with those who say there is no need for an aduit now that The Joey is gone?

-janedoe

No, 1-Opinion is certainly determined and vindictive. Sadly, I think he (she?) is correct about the possibility of doing a limited audit of so-called "problem" areas.

I can't believe anybody thinks it's impossible to do a "limited" audit, forensic or otherwise. If the Solicitor's Office or SLED suspects wrongdoing in, say, the roads and bridges department, can they not do an audit of that department without having to audit every single account in Anderson County? Of course they can. They can ratchet the scope of the audit down to ONE INDIVIDUAL if the want to.

Please. It's ridiculous to claim an all-or-nothing basis for an audit of this type. You can selectively audit any departments you want to audit if there's reasonable suspicion of irregularities. To claim otherwise makes no sense on so many levels. And I've said before here that anything beyond that type of limited audit - over and above the standard annual audit - would be a total waste of money and time.

Is anyone surprised that 1-O would scour the web to find something, anything to support his pre-determined conculsions and ignore anything that doesn't?

-sweet-p

No, 1-Opinion is certainly determined and vindictive. Sadly, I think he (she?) is correct about the possibility of doing a limited audit of so-called "problem" areas.

-jdtippett

No, 1-Opinion is certainly determined and vindictive. Sadly, I think he (she?) is correct about the possibility of doing a limited audit of so-called "problem" areas.

I can't believe anybody thinks it's impossible to do a "limited" audit, forensic or otherwise. If the Solicitor's Office or SLED suspects wrongdoing in, say, the roads and bridges department, can they not do an audit of that department without having to audit every single account in Anderson County? Of course they can. They can ratchet the scope of the audit down to ONE INDIVIDUAL if the want to.

Please. It's ridiculous to claim an all-or-nothing basis for an audit of this type. You can selectively audit any departments you want to audit if there's reasonable suspicion of irregularities. To claim otherwise makes no sense on so many levels. And I've said before here that anything beyond that type of limited audit - over and above the standard annual audit - would be a total waste of money and time.

-jdtippett

I'm no expert here, PAPPY, but it would seem to me one would need a microscope to figure out the difference between a "limited audit" and an "audit limited to ..." We're playing semantics.

Any RFQ sent to accounting firms would certainly define those limits.

(By the way, unless the law has changed in the past 10 years - and it wouldn't surprise me if it has - you do not put things like engineering, architectural or accounting services out for "bids." You send out a "request for qualifications" and make the determination of who to select based on that, THEN you negotiate the price. It's a pain in the a** to do it that way, but those professionals are apparently 'pecial.)

No need to scour when all you have to do is google the words "forensic audit" and volia! What do you base your opinions on, your opinions or do you research anything? You don't like the article find one that refutes what the one I found said. LOL

The Council waived their right to pursue Preston with any finding from an audit. Given that fact, how would an audit be vindictive?

-1-opinion

I'm no expert here, PAPPY, but it would seem to me one would need a microscope to figure out the difference between a "limited audit" and an "audit limited to ..." We're playing semantics. [image]

Any RFQ sent to accounting firms would certainly define those limits.

(By the way, unless the law has changed in the past 10 years - and it wouldn't surprise me if it has - you do not put things like engineering, architectural or accounting services out for "bids." You send out a "request for qualifications" and make the determination of who to select based on that, THEN you negotiate the price. It's a pain in the a** to do it that way, but those professionals are apparently 'pecial.) [image]

-jdtippett

Google and get "forensic audit," eh?

Talk about lazy ...

You linked the VERY first thing you came across (1-O's link is THE FIRST item returned from Google) without checking to see if there was ANY application to the topic at hand. To make certain, that topic would involve ANDERSON COUNTY, not audit practices of nations of the Pacific Rim. [image]


Your Google-Fu skills are weak . . . come back when you have learned how to work an internet search engine.






- SSHM

-sshm

Wyatt, you are talking about yourself here. You are one of those the most guilty of pretending they have special knowledge and understanding when in fact you are just a rude man with no manners.

ROTFLMAO SSHM

-1-opinion

Rude, eh?   Looking at your responses to others....not nice to be so blatantly two-faced there Oppie.  Oh, I forgot my manners.  SIR, you are a"frikkin Bozo" idiot! ( mods continue to ignore the "personal attacks")

As for non squirter, you KNOW who I am already.  Seen us in council sessions, on television, in the press, and many social functions where we don't "hide" from nobody.   Shoot, just ask yourblog-daddy JD, he'll divulge all the personal details, maybe give you my password or cell number.....  Use the link under my name ninnie.  Real detective work. As indepth as your information you post about ( copied from others).    I NEVER claimed any financial training or banking knowledge. I never worked FOR the County or it's affiliates.  I don't suck anyone's toes to get my say in court.  Simply an intelligent and non-cooperative YANKEE who hates this bitterness that passes for community.  As a human who attended/graduated higher learning facilities,  can read, write, function without a gang and reason without copy/paste, its not hard to figger out the issues, problem people and resolutions to those root causes. DUH!  A poster said it best above. You b*tched about Gene Taylor, he's gone.  You b*tched about Joey Preston, he's gone in a few days. You b*tched about Dave Crenshaw, he too is gone.You b*tch bout the council, you replaced them and STILL  whine like a stuck mule in a mudhole. After YEARS of this senseless bickering, it still rambles on & on.  Find another scapegoat.

Oh, don't worry about 1-Opinion, Wyatt. He'll still have Gracie Floyd, Ron Wilson (his former knight in shining armor who apparently came to the same conclusion other have that the constant negativism is counterproductive) and Michael Cunningham to dump on, not to mention a bunch of hard-working county employees who are, sadly, about to fall victim to petty politics. And the Prestonistas who have lost their leader stsill have Cindy Wilson and Bob Waldrep to dump on. The more things change, the more they remain the same.

It is, indeed, time for this "senseless bickering" to end on all front. But, for reasons you, 1-Opinion, I and many others here demonstrate, it won't unfortunately.

Wyatt, I have trouble keeping up with my own passwords. I don't need to clutter my head up with somebody else's. I do have the home and cellphone numbers of several members here, but that's by mutual agreement, not through any Sherlock Holmes sleuthing I've done on my own. In fact, you're welcome to my phone numbers if you ever want to talk.

I'm not that hard to find. I'm neither "Blog Daddy" nor "Lord and Creator" of Anderson Talkzone. I'm one of five moderators of this forum. But if (as I inferred from your post) you think "scapegoating" is wrong, I would ask you if what y'all have done to the JDTippett and PAPPY screen names over on the other forum and on this one is any less wrong?

I didn't know Homeland Park allowed glass houses.

Rude, eh? Looking at your responses to others....not nice to be so blatantly two-faced there Oppie. Oh, I forgot my manners. SIR, you are a"frikkin Bozo" idiot! ( mods continue to ignore the "personal attacks")

As for non squirter, you KNOW who I am already. Seen us in council sessions, on television, in the press, and many social functions where we don't "hide" from nobody. Shoot, just ask yourblog-daddy JD, he'll divulge all the personal details, maybe give you my password or cell number..... Use the link under my name ninnie. Real detective work. As indepth as your information you post about ( copied from others). I NEVER claimed any financial training or banking knowledge. I never worked FOR the County or it's affiliates. I don't suck anyone's toes to get my say in court. Simply an intelligent and non-cooperative YANKEE who hates this bitterness that passes for community. As a human who attended/graduated higher learning facilities, can read, write, function without a gang and reason without copy/paste, its not hard to figger out the issues, problem people and resolutions to those root causes. DUH! A poster said it best above. You b*tched about Gene Taylor, he's gone. You b*tched about Joey Preston, he's gone in a few days. You b*tched about Dave Crenshaw, he too is gone.You b*tch bout the council, you replaced them and STILL whine like a stuck mule in a mudhole. After YEARS of this senseless bickering, it still rambles on & on. Find another scapegoat.

-wyatt1sc