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FY2013 Annual Financial Report AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2013 1 Board of Trustees University of Toledo 2801 W. Brancroft Street Toledo, Ohio 43606-3390 We have reviewed the Independent Auditor’s Report of the University of Toledo, Lucas County, prepared by Plante & Moran, PLLC, for the audit period July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013. Based upon this review, we have accepted these reports in lieu of the audit required by Section 117.11, Revised Code. The Auditor of State did not audit the accompanying financial statements and, accordingly, we are unable to express, and do not express an opinion on them. Our review was made in reference to the applicable sections of legislative criteria, as reflected by the Ohio Constitution, and the Revised Code, policies, procedures and guidelines of the Auditor of State, regulations and grant requirements. The University of Toledo is responsible for compliance with these laws and regulations. Dave Yost Auditor of State January 16, 2014 88 East Broad Street, Fifth Floor, Columbus, Ohio 43215‐3506 Phone: 614‐466‐4514 or 800‐282‐0370 Fax: 614‐466‐4490 www. auditor.state.oh.us This page intentionally left blank. Independent Auditor's Report To the Board of Trustees University of Toledo Report on the Financial Statements We have audited the accompanying financial statements of University of Toledo and its discretely presented component unit, as of and for the years ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, and the related notes to the financial statements, which collectively comprise University of Toledo's financial statements as listed in the table of contents. These financial statements are reported as a component unit of the State of Ohio. Management’s Responsibility for the Financial Statements Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America; this includes the design, implementation, and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. Auditor’s Responsibility Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America 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 audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement. An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity’s internal control. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion. Opinion In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of University of Toledo and its discretely presented component unit as of June 30, 2013 and 2012 and the changes in its financial position and, where applicable, cash flows thereof, for the years then ended, in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Emphasis of Matter As discussed in Note 1 to the basic financial statements, effective July 1, 2012, the University adopted new accounting guidance under Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement No. 63, Financial Reporting of Deferred Outflows of Resources, Deferred Inflows of Resources, and Net Position. This statement incorporates deferred outflows of resources and deferred inflows of resources, as defined by GASB Concepts Statement No. 4, into the definitions of the required components of the residual measure of net position, formerly net assets. Our opinion is not modified with respect to this matter. 2 To the Board of Trustees University of Toledo As disclosed in Note 1 to the financial statements, the discretely presented component unit financial statements for June 30, 2012 have been restated to correct a misstatement. Other Matters Required Supplemental Information Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America require that management's discussion and analysis, as identified on pages 4 through 17, 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, which 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 supplemental 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 management’s 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 Supplemental Information The accompanying other supplemental information, the schedule of expenditures of federal awards, is presented for the purpose 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 not a required part of the basic financial statements. Such information is the responsibility of management and was derived from and relates directly to the underlying accounting and other records used to prepare the financial statements. The information has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic financial statements and certain additional procedures, including comparing and reconciling such information directly to the underlying accounting and other records used to prepare the financial statement or the financial statements themselves, and other additional procedures in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. In our opinion, the information is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole. Other Reporting Required by Government Auditing Standards In accordance with Government Auditing Standards, we have also issued our report dated October 11, 2013 on our consideration of the University of Toledo's internal control over financial reporting and on our tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws, regulations, contracts, grant agreements, and other matters. The purpose of that report is to describe the scope of our testing of internal control over financial reporting and compliance and the results of that testing, and not to provide an opinion on the internal control over financial reporting or on compliance. That report is an integral part of an audit performed in accordance with Government Auditing Standards in considering University of Toledo's internal control over financial reporting and compliance. October 11, 2013 3 MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS The following Management’s Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) provides an overview of the financial position and activities of the University of Toledo for the year ended June 30, 2013 with comparative information for the years ended June 30, 2012 and 2011. The MD&A should be read in conjunction with the accompanying audited financial statements and footnotes. ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO The University is a leading research institution in the state of Ohio with nearly 23,000 students, 1,500 instructional faculty, and 4,300 staff members. The University is comprised of thirteen colleges: Business; Education, Health Science, & Human Services; Engineering; Graduate Studies; Law; Language, Literature, & Social Sciences; Medicine; Natural Sciences & Mathematics; Nursing; Pharmacy; Adult & Lifelong Learning; Visual & Performing Arts; and the Honors College. The University offers more than 250 undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs leading to degrees in over 60 instructional departments. The University operates the University of Toledo Medical Center (UTMC) which includes 319 registered beds and provides services to more than 11,000 inpatient admissions and more than 201,000 outpatient clinic visits including 34,000 emergency
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