The Board of Finance of the Town of Ashford is soliciting the services of qualified firms of certified public accountants to audit the financial statements of the governmental activities, each major fund and the aggregate remaining fund information, which collectively comprise the entity’s basic financial statements of the Town of Ashford as of and for the year ended June 30, 2024.The document the audit firm submits to the Ashford Board of Finance to be incorporated in comprehensive financial reports, will include the following supplementary information required by generally accepted accounting principles that will be subjected to certain limited procedures, but will not be audited: 1. Schedules of funding progress and employer contributions for the Pension Trust Fund 2. Statement of revenues, expenditures and changes in fund balance – budget and actuals for the General Fund and Capital and Non-Recurring Expenditures Fund. 3. Other supplementary financial data that will be subjected to auditing procedures applied in the audit of financial statements upon which the audit firm chosen will provide as an opinion in relation to the basic financial statements. A separate report will contain schedule for expenditures of state financial assistance. Although not anticipated, if a federal single audit is required, it would be contained in an additional separate report. In addition, the audit firm would confirm the services to be provided in a separate letter.