Finding 1156598 (2024-001)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
P
Questioned Costs
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Year
2024
Accepted
2025-09-30
Audit: 368944
Organization: Educate Maine (ME)

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: The organization has not submitted its audit reporting package for the year ended December 31, 2023, violating Uniform Guidance requirements.
  • Impacted Requirements: Timely submission of audit reports is crucial for compliance and contract monitoring.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: Reassess internal controls to ensure timely preparation and submission of federal award reports moving forward.

Finding Text

Condition and Context: As listed in Uniform Guidance §200.512, Report Submission, an organization is required to submit their audit reporting package within the earlier of thirty days of receiving the auditor’s report, or nine months after the end of the audit period. The audit reporting package for the year ended December 31, 2023 has not yet been submitted to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse. Criteria: Submission of reports and reporting package by required due dates is an important element in contract monitoring. Cause: The Organization was unaware of the federal funding element related to some of their funding passed through other organizations. Effect: The Organization has not yet submitted its audit reporting package for the previous year. Recommendation: Internal controls should be reevaluated to provide a structure which will facilitate timely preparation of the Organization’s Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards and monitoring of this process to ensure timely recognition of the requirement in a given year for a Single Audit. Views of Responsible Officials and Planned Corrective Action: Management agrees with the finding and is working on submission of the federal reporting package for the year ended December 31, 2023. The submission of the December 31, 2024 federal reporting package will be completed prior to its due date.

Corrective Action Plan

Management agrees with the finding and is working on submission of the federal reporting package for the year ended December 31, 2023. The submission of the December 31,2024 federal reporting package will be completed prior to its due date.

Categories

Reporting Subrecipient Monitoring

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 1156597 2024-001
    Material Weakness Repeat

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
21.027 Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds $197,394
17.285 Registered Apprenticeship $103,651
84.215 Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects $92,948
43.009 Mission Support $7,216