Corrective Action Plan February 13, 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities Indiana Humanities Council respectfully submits the following corrective action plan for the year ended October 31, 2022. Name and address of independent public accounting firm: Blue & Co. 12800 N Meridian St, Ste 400 Ca...
Corrective Action Plan February 13, 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities Indiana Humanities Council respectfully submits the following corrective action plan for the year ended October 31, 2022. Name and address of independent public accounting firm: Blue & Co. 12800 N Meridian St, Ste 400 Carmel IN 46032 Audit period: 11/1/2021-10/31/2022 FEDERAL AWARD FINDINDS AND QUESTIONED COSTS 2022-001 ? Matching Requirements Condition: IH grant management system contained errors that led to the misaccumulation of matching dollars reported to the NEH. Recommendation: We recommend that controls surrounding the accumulation of grant information within the grant management system be established to provide accurate accumulation of matching dollars including monitoring of this information and follow up with grantees as necessary. Action Taken: We concur with the audit finding. Since this finding was first discussed in December 2022, we have taken the steps to resubmit the SF-425 for the impacted grant utilizing information from the properly reported and closed subawards. Subawards that have not yet provided a close-out report were excluded from this revised SF-425. Interim SF-425 reporting for January 31, 2023 included the match only from subawards that had been closed during the grant period - open awards were excluded. We are in the process of implementing a new grant database, which includes automated communication tools with grant recipients. One of the challenges that the grants management team has is consistently and timely communicating deadlines and expectations. By sending automated reminders ? triggered by specific events such as the end of a grant year, planned completion date of the project, etc., we can hopefully obtain more timely information from grant recipients. As well, the system will be able to trigger reports to staff of grantees who are delinquent in their reporting such that follow up can occur. If the National Endowment for the Humanities has questions regarding this plan, please call Keira Amstutz, IH President and CEO at 317-616-9379. Sincerely, Keira Amstutz President and CEO kamstutz@indianahumanities.org 317-616-9379