Findings and Questioned Costs Relating to Federal Awards: Late Single Audit Submission, Reporting
Management submitted Single Audit reports up to fiscal year 2023.
To address the root cause for this finding, management performed the following actions:
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Management audit contracts are followed up dir...
Findings and Questioned Costs Relating to Federal Awards: Late Single Audit Submission, Reporting
Management submitted Single Audit reports up to fiscal year 2023.
To address the root cause for this finding, management performed the following actions:
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Management audit contracts are followed up directly by CFO to ensure timely execution to ensure audits are timely completed and planned.
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Management enhancements to the finance function, such as accounting closing checklists, accounting closing meetings and reconciliation processes, among other actions, should improve the timing of audit results.
Additional resources (consultants) were hired to assist in the audit process to ensure external auditors have information on a timely basis. In order to ascertain that basic and recurrent information requested by auditors is ready, management prepared an updated list of information normally requested and prepared a OneDrive (cloud backup storage) where all information will be archived and ready to be delivered to the auditors as requested. This should provide the efficiency and agility to response to auditors in a timely manner.
Management successfully completed late Single Audit submissions with this 2023 Single Audit Report. With this filing, DDEC is up to date in its regulatory reports. Furthermore, with the process enhancements and improved controls implemented, DDEC expects to continue filing on or before filing due dates.