Following a meeting with Ralph Picker of Picker and Associates, on Monday August 13th, 2018, the Board accepted Picker’s audit report for the 2017/2018 Financial Statements.

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From the Offices of Picker and Associates:

To the Board of Directors of
Park Tower Condominium Association

We have audited the financial statements of Park Tower Condominium Association for the years ended February 28, 2018 and 2017, and have issued our report thereon dated April 16, 2018. Professional standards require that we provide you with information about our responsibilities under generally accepted auditing standards, as well as certain information related to the planned scope and timing of our audit. We have communicated such information in our engagement letter dated July 30, 2014. Professional standards also require that we communicate to you the following information related to our audit.

Significant Audit Findings

Qualitative Aspects of Accounting Practices

You are responsible for the selection and use of appropriate accounting policies. The significant accounting policies used by Park Tower Condominium Association are described in Note 1 to the financial statements. No new accounting policies were adopted and the application of existing policies was not changed during the year ended February 28, 2018. We noted no transactions entered into by the Association during the year for which there is a lack of authoritative guidance or consensus. All significant transactions have been recognized in the financial statements in the proper period.

Accounting estimates are an integral part of the financial statements and are based on your knowledge and experience about past and current events and assumptions about future events. Certain accounting estimates are particularly sensitive because of their significance to the financial statements and because of the possibility that future events affecting them may differ significantly from those expected. The most sensitive estimate affecting the financial statements was:

Your estimate of the allowance for doubtful accounts is based on historical sales, historical loss levels, and an analysis of the collectability of individual accounts. We evaluated the key factors and assumptions used to develop the allowance in determining that it is reasonable in relation to the financial statements taken as a whole.

Certain financial statement disclosures are particularly sensitive because of their significance to financial statement users. The most sensitive disclosures affecting the financial statements was:

In April 2018, the Association signed a contract with the subcontractor for cooling tower replacement for a total of $109,125. The project is being funded by reserve funds.

The financial statement disclosures are neutral, consistent, and clear.

Difficulties Encountered in Performing the Audit:

We encountered no significant difficulties in performing and completing our audit.

Uncorrected Misstatements:

Professional standards require us to accumulate all misstatements identified during the audit, other than those that are clearly trivial, and communicate them to the appropriate level of management. You have corrected all such misstatements.

Disagreements with Management:

For purposes of this letter, a disagreement with management is a financial accounting, reporting, or auditing matter, whether or not resolved to our satisfaction, that could be significant to the financial statements or the auditor’s report. We are pleased to report that no such disagreements arose during the course of our audit.

Other Audit Findings or Issues:

None noted.

Other Matters

With respect to the supplementary information accompanying the financial statements, we made certain inquiries of management and evaluated the form, content, and methods of preparing the information to determine that the information complies with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, the method of preparing it has not changed from the prior period, and the information is appropriate and complete in relation to our audit of the financial statements. We compared and reconciled the supplementary information to the underlying accounting records used to prepare the financial statements or to the financial statements themselves.

Very truly yours,

Picker and Associates, LLC