2018-COH - Comprehensive Annual Financial Report

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N&K CPAs, Inc. ACCOUNTANTS I CONSULTANTS We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinions. Opinions In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the respective financial position of the governmental activities, the business -type activities, the discretely presented component unit, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of the County of Hawaii, State of Hawaii, as of June 30, 2018, and the respective changes in financial position and, where applicable, cash flows thereof and the budgetary comparison for the general fund for the fiscal year then ended in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Emphasis of Matter Adoption of New Accounting Principle As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, the County adopted new accounting guidance, GASB Statement No. 75, Accounting and Financial Reporting for Postemployment Benefits Other Than Pensions. Our opinion is not modified with respect to this matter. Other Matters Required Supplementary Information Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America require that the managements discussion and analysis (pages 16 through 26), schedule of changes in the net OPEB liability and related ratios (page 106), schedule of contributions (OPEB) (pages 107 through 108), schedule of the CountyS and Departments proportionate share of the net pension liability (ERS) (page 109), schedule of the employer pension contributions (ERS) (pages 110 through 111), and schedule of changes in total pension liability (page 112), be presented to supplement the basic financial statements. Such information, although not a part of the basic financial statements, is required by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board who considers it to be an essential part of financial reporting for placing the basic financial statements in an appropriate operational, economic, or historical context. We have applied certain limited procedures to the required supplementary information in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America, which consisted of inquiries of management about the methods of preparing the information and comparing the information for consistency with managements responses to our inquiries, the basic financial statements, and other knowledge we obtained during our audit of the basic financial statements. We do not express an opinion or provide any assurance on the information because the limited procedures do not provide us with sufficient evidence to express an opinion or provide any assurance. Other Information Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming opinions on the financial statements that collectively comprise the CountyS basic financial statements. The introductory section, combining and individual nonmajor fund financial statements and budgetary comparison schedules, and