Title: NOTE 1. GENERAL
Accounting Policies: The accompanying schedules of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance include federal and state award activity of the Board of Trustees, Union County TEAMS Charter School. The Board of Trustees is defined in Note 1 to the board’s basic financial statements. All federal and state awards received directly from federal and state agencies, as well as federal awards and state financial assistance passed through other government agencies is included on the schedule of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance.
De Minimis Rate Used: N
Rate Explanation: The School has elected not to use the 10 percent de minimis indirect cost rate allowed under the Uniform Guidance
The accompanying schedules of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance include federal and state award activity of the Board of Trustees, Union County TEAMS Charter School. The Board of Trustees is defined in Note 1 to the board’s basic financial statements. All federal and state awards received directly from federal and state agencies, as well as federal awards and state financial assistance passed through other government agencies is included on the schedule of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance.
Title: NOTE 2. BASIS OF ACCOUNTING
Accounting Policies: The accompanying schedules of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance include federal and state award activity of the Board of Trustees, Union County TEAMS Charter School. The Board of Trustees is defined in Note 1 to the board’s basic financial statements. All federal and state awards received directly from federal and state agencies, as well as federal awards and state financial assistance passed through other government agencies is included on the schedule of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance.
De Minimis Rate Used: N
Rate Explanation: The School has elected not to use the 10 percent de minimis indirect cost rate allowed under the Uniform Guidance
The accompanying schedules of expenditures of awards and financial assistance are presented on the budgetary basis of accounting with the exception of programs recorded in the food service fund, which are presented using the accrual basis of accounting. These bases of
accounting are described in Note 1 to the board’s basic financial statements. The information in this schedule is presented in accordance with the requirements of 2 (CFR) Part 200 -Uniform Guidance Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal
Awards (Uniform Guidance) and the audit requirements as prescribed by the Office of School Finance, Department of Education, State of New Jersey; New Jersey Circular 15-08 OMB, Single Audit Policy for Recipients of Federal Grants, State Grants and State Aid. Therefore,
some amounts presented in this schedule may differ from amounts presented in, or used in the presentation of, the basic financial statements.
Title: NOTE 3. RELATIONSHIP TO BASIC FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Accounting Policies: The accompanying schedules of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance include federal and state award activity of the Board of Trustees, Union County TEAMS Charter School. The Board of Trustees is defined in Note 1 to the board’s basic financial statements. All federal and state awards received directly from federal and state agencies, as well as federal awards and state financial assistance passed through other government agencies is included on the schedule of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance.
De Minimis Rate Used: N
Rate Explanation: The School has elected not to use the 10 percent de minimis indirect cost rate allowed under the Uniform Guidance
The basic financial statements present the general fund and special revenue fund on a GAAP basis. Budgetary comparison statements or schedules (RSI) are presented for the general fund and special revenue fund to demonstrate finance-related legal compliance in which certain
revenue is permitted by law or grant agreement to be recognized in the audit year, whereas for GAAP reporting, revenue is not recognized until the subsequent year or when expenditures have been made. The general fund is presented in the accompanying schedules on the modified accrual basis with the exception of the revenue recognition of the one or more deferred June state aid payments in the current budget year, which is mandated pursuant to N.J.S.A. 18A:22-44.2. For GAAP purposes payments are not recognized until the subsequent budget year due to the state deferral and recording of the one or more June state aid payments in the subsequent year. The special revenue fund is presented in the accompanying schedules on the grant accounting budgetary basis which recognizes encumbrances as expenditures and also recognizes the related revenues, whereas the GAAP basis does not. The special revenue fund also recognizes the one or more June state aid payment in the current budget year, consistent with N.J.S.A. 18A:22-4.2. The net adjustment to reconcile from the budgetary basis to the GAAP basis is none for the general fund and none for the special revenue fund. See Notes to the Required Supplementary Information for a reconciliation of the budgetary basis to the modified accrual basis of accounting for the general and special revenue funds. Awards and financial assistance revenues are reported in the board’s basic financial statements on a GAAP basis as presented below:
Title: NOTE 4. RELATIONSHIP TO FEDERAL AND STATE FINANCIAL REPORTS
Accounting Policies: The accompanying schedules of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance include federal and state award activity of the Board of Trustees, Union County TEAMS Charter School. The Board of Trustees is defined in Note 1 to the board’s basic financial statements. All federal and state awards received directly from federal and state agencies, as well as federal awards and state financial assistance passed through other government agencies is included on the schedule of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance.
De Minimis Rate Used: N
Rate Explanation: The School has elected not to use the 10 percent de minimis indirect cost rate allowed under the Uniform Guidance
Amounts reported in the accompanying schedules agree with the amounts reported in the related federal and state financial reports.
Title: NOTE 5. FEDERAL AND STATE LOAN OUTSTANDING
Accounting Policies: The accompanying schedules of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance include federal and state award activity of the Board of Trustees, Union County TEAMS Charter School. The Board of Trustees is defined in Note 1 to the board’s basic financial statements. All federal and state awards received directly from federal and state agencies, as well as federal awards and state financial assistance passed through other government agencies is included on the schedule of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance.
De Minimis Rate Used: N
Rate Explanation: The School has elected not to use the 10 percent de minimis indirect cost rate allowed under the Uniform Guidance
Union County TEAMS Charter School has no loan balances outstanding at June 30, 2024
Title: NOTE 6. OTHER INFORMATION
Accounting Policies: The accompanying schedules of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance include federal and state award activity of the Board of Trustees, Union County TEAMS Charter School. The Board of Trustees is defined in Note 1 to the board’s basic financial statements. All federal and state awards received directly from federal and state agencies, as well as federal awards and state financial assistance passed through other government agencies is included on the schedule of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance.
De Minimis Rate Used: N
Rate Explanation: The School has elected not to use the 10 percent de minimis indirect cost rate allowed under the Uniform Guidance
Revenues and expenditures reported under the Food Distribution Program represent current year value received and current year distributions respectively. The amount reported as TPAF Pension Contributions represents the amount paid by the state on behalf of the Charter School
for the year ended June 30, 2024. TPAF Social Security Contributions represents the amount reimbursed by the state for the employer’s share of social security contributions for TPAF members for the year ended June 30, 2024.
Title: NOTE 7. ON-BEHALF PROGRAMS NOT SUBJECT TO STATE SINGLE AUDIT
Accounting Policies: The accompanying schedules of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance include federal and state award activity of the Board of Trustees, Union County TEAMS Charter School. The Board of Trustees is defined in Note 1 to the board’s basic financial statements. All federal and state awards received directly from federal and state agencies, as well as federal awards and state financial assistance passed through other government agencies is included on the schedule of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance.
De Minimis Rate Used: N
Rate Explanation: The School has elected not to use the 10 percent de minimis indirect cost rate allowed under the Uniform Guidance
On-behalf State Programs for TPAF Pension and Post-Retirement Medical Benefits Contributions payments are not subject to a State single audit and, therefore, are excluded from major program determination. The Schedule of State Financial Assistance provides a reconciliation of State financial assistance reported in the Charter School’s basic financial statements and the amount subject to State single audit and major program determination.
Title: NOTE 8. SCHOOL WIDE PROGRAM FUNDS
Accounting Policies: The accompanying schedules of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance include federal and state award activity of the Board of Trustees, Union County TEAMS Charter School. The Board of Trustees is defined in Note 1 to the board’s basic financial statements. All federal and state awards received directly from federal and state agencies, as well as federal awards and state financial assistance passed through other government agencies is included on the schedule of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance.
De Minimis Rate Used: N
Rate Explanation: The School has elected not to use the 10 percent de minimis indirect cost rate allowed under the Uniform Guidance
Schoolwide programs are not separate federal programs as defined in Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements of Federal Awards; amounts used in schoolwide programs are included in the total expenditures of the program contributing the
funds in the Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards. The Charter School does not have a schoolwide program.
Title: NOTE 9. MAJOR PROGRAMS
Accounting Policies: The accompanying schedules of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance include federal and state award activity of the Board of Trustees, Union County TEAMS Charter School. The Board of Trustees is defined in Note 1 to the board’s basic financial statements. All federal and state awards received directly from federal and state agencies, as well as federal awards and state financial assistance passed through other government agencies is included on the schedule of expenditures of federal awards and state financial assistance.
De Minimis Rate Used: N
Rate Explanation: The School has elected not to use the 10 percent de minimis indirect cost rate allowed under the Uniform Guidance
Major programs are identified in the summary of auditor’s results section of the schedule of findings and questioned costs.