Finding Text
Finding 2024‐003: Allowable costs – Significant deficiency in internal control over compliance and compliance finding.
Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies ALN 84.010
Criteria: Section 200 of the Code of Federal Regulations requires recipients to implement robust internal controls to ensure compliance with cost principles for all transactions charged to the grant.
Condition: During allowable cost testing for federal grants, for 3 out of 17 payroll transactions tested, the amount charged to the grant did not agree to actual time and effort.
Cause: Funding percentages in the accounting system did not match the actual time and effort per the semi‐annual time and effort certification logs.
Effect: The School's reporting of grant time and effort was not fully documented, in accordance with internal control over compliance procedures. The cumulative effect of the exceptions noted during tested resulted in the grants being undercharged by the School.
Questioned Costs: None
Recommendation: Management should ensure amount charged to the grants agree to the approved percentage per the semi‐annual time and effort certification logs before the request for reimbursement is submitted.