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The Fiscal Office plays a vital role in establishing and <strong>ma</strong>intaining internal controls to ensure the<br />
data in the financial statements and reports are reliable, safeguarding the trust’s assets, promoting<br />
operational efficiency and ensuring the Department’s operations are in compliance with DHHL’s<br />
policies, goals and objectives as well as laws, rules and regulations that govern DHHL.<br />
The Fiscal Office <strong>ma</strong>intains the Department’s accounting records and prepares the Department’s<br />
financial reports which conform to generally accepted government accounting standards.<br />
The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands has passed its independent financial audit each year<br />
with an “unqualified audit opinion” which demonstrates that the Department has effective controls<br />
over the accounting of its revenues, expenditures, disbursements, assets and liabilities.<br />
The Department’s FY 2010 Financial Statements is presented on pages 49–57 of this year’s report.<br />
24 | DHHL ANNUAL REPORT 2010