2025-001: Allowable Costs/Cost Principles Federal Agency: Department of Education Federal Program: Educational Stabilization Fund ASSISTANCE LISTING Numbers: 84.425C – Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund 84.425R – Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools 84.425U – Elementary and Secondary S...
2025-001: Allowable Costs/Cost Principles Federal Agency: Department of Education Federal Program: Educational Stabilization Fund ASSISTANCE LISTING Numbers: 84.425C – Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund 84.425R – Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools 84.425U – Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund 84.425V – Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools Award Period: July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025 Type of Finding: Significant Deficiency in Internal Control over Compliance, Other Matter Recommendation: We recommend that the University evaluate its cutoff procedures to ensure that federal costs are identified and reported in the correct fiscal year. We also recommend that the University evaluate its internal controls to ensure that federal awards are properly identified as such at inception. Explanation of disagreement with audit finding: There is no disagreement with the audit finding. Action taken in response to finding: OSU is implementing a campus-wide Administrative Modernization Program (AMP) to update technology, improve efficiencies, and ensure a comprehensive internal control environment. This modernization includes redesigning the university’s administrative and grant processes, including budget development, payroll lifecycle, employee recruitment, grant effort reporting, procurement, and others. A primary aspect of this optimization is a transition of the university’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system from Banner to Workday effective July 1, 2026. To reflect this system transition, OSU’s actions in response to the finding will be taken in two stages: 1. For FY26, the Division of Research and Innovation (DRI) will run reports and screen for anomalies and mismatches of revenue type and fund type to identify awards with the correct federal fund when a federal program is identified with an ALN#. The screening will take place before the fiscal year end, allowing time for corrections to be made in Banner while the fiscal year is still active. 2. For FY27 and beyond, rather than a warning, critical custom validations will be required and established in Workday as follows: • Any award that uses an ALN# also must include the appropriate Fund and Revenue Category worktags on the award line • Any award with a federal sponsor or federal prime sponsor must have ALN# entered • Any award with a federal sponsor or federal prime sponsor must include the appropriate Fund and Revenue Category worktag on the award line Name of the contact person responsible for corrective action: Jennifer Creighton, Associate Vice President for Research Administration, Finance and Operations Planned completion date for corrective action plan: Corrective action to screen for anomalies and mismatches of revenue type and fund type in Banner to ensure awards are identified with the correct federal fund will occur by June 30, 2026. The establishment of custom validations in Workday to ensure identification of federal awards will occur and be ongoing with the new system implementation after July 1, 2026.