CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN FOR FINDINGS REPORTED UNDER UNIFORM GUIDANCE
Winlock School District No. 232
September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2022
This schedule presents the corrective action planned by the District for findings reported in this report in accordance with Title 2 U.S. Code of Federal Regu...
CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN FOR FINDINGS REPORTED UNDER UNIFORM GUIDANCE
Winlock School District No. 232
September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2022
This schedule presents the corrective action planned by the District for findings reported in this report in accordance with Title 2 U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (Uniform Guidance).
Finding ref number:
2022-001
Finding caption:
The District did not have adequate controls for ensuring compliance with federal requirements for allowable costs and cost principles.
Name, address, and telephone of District contact person:
Gloria Dupree, Business Manager, N.E. 1st Street, Winlock, WA 98596, (360) 785-3582
Corrective action the auditee plans to take in response to the finding:
Corrective actions for ensuring compliance with federal requirements around cash management, allowable costs, and cost principles.
Cash Management
1. Review Policies and Procedures: Ensure the district’s policies and procedures align with federal standards. Regularly audit your cash management practices.
2. Training: Ensure training on federal regulations and the importance of adhering to them for staff members involved in cash management.
3. Internal Controls: Strengthen internal controls to prevent and detect non-compliance, including segregation of duties and regular reconciliations. We hired a new Accounts payable employee in February 2023.
4. Monitoring: Monitor regularly to ensure that federal funds are utilized properly and efficiently.
Allowable Costs
1. Guidance Review: Review the federal awarding agency’s guidance on allowable costs to ensure that all costs charged to the award are permissible under the specific federal program.
Office of the Washington State Auditor sao.wa.gov
2. Documentation: Implement a robust system to document all costs and ensure they are reasonable, allocable, and necessary.
4. Review: Conduct regular reviews of expenditures to check for compliance with allowable cost principles.
5. Training: Educate all staff involved in financial management about the principles of allowable costs associated with federal awards.
Cost Principles
1. Policy Update: Update organizational policies to reflect federal cost principles.
2. Consistency: Apply costs consistently and in a manner consistent with policies and procedures.
3. Direct vs. Indirect Costs: Properly identify direct and indirect costs and allocate them according to federal standards.
4. Record Keeping: Maintain accurate and complete financial records, retaining them for the period specified by the federal award or until all audits are completed and findings resolved.
Anticipated date to complete the corrective action: 02/01/2024