Finding 1157375 (2024-004)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
L
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2024
Accepted
2025-09-30
Audit: 369652
Organization: Northwest Side Housing Center (IL)
Auditor: Porte Brown LLC

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: The Center cannot confirm that reimbursement expenses match accounting records, risking duplicate or inflated charges to grants.
  • Impacted Requirements: Lack of general ledger support for monthly vouchers means expenses may not be properly documented or allocated.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: Management should improve documentation processes and ensure annual reconciliation of total expenditures with the general ledger.

Finding Text

The Center is not able to ensure that the expenses submitted for reimbursement tie back to the accounting records to ensure no duplicate or overcharging of expenditures to grants. Condition: The Center was unable to provide general ledger detail to support the amounts included on the monthly vouchers charged to the grants. Cause: Due to limited staffing resources, the Center was not able to ensure maintenance of adequate documentation. Effect: The Center must be able to demonstrate the expenses allocated to the program is properly supported to ensure adequate records that the expenditure has been incurred and not allocated to other programs. Questioned Costs: Unknown Recommendation: Management should review and refine its process of reporting documentation to ensure that documentation of the general ledger activity that supports the amount on the vouchers is maintained and that total expenditures for the year is reconciled back to the general ledger on an annual basis. Views of Responsible Officials: Management agrees with the finding; see corrective action plan.

Corrective Action Plan

The Center is implementing reconciliations of the grant expenditures to the general ledger.

Categories

Cash Management Reporting

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 1157368 2024-003
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1157369 2024-003
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1157370 2024-003
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1157371 2024-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1157372 2024-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1157373 2024-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1157374 2024-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1157376 2024-005
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1157377 2024-005
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1157378 2024-005
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1157379 2024-005
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1157380 2024-005
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1157381 2024-006
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1157382 2024-006
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1157383 2024-006
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1157384 2024-006
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1157385 2024-006
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1157386 2024-007
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1157387 2024-008
    Material Weakness Repeat

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
93.391 Activities to Support State, Tribal, Local and Territorial (stlt) Health Department Response to Public Health Or Healthcare Crises $290,665
93.197 Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Projects_state and Local Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and Surveillance of Blood Lead Levels in Children $144,665
14.218 Community Development Block Grants/entitlement Grants $94,483
93.268 Medicare Enrollment Assistance Program $89,353
93.323 Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (elc) $84,739
93.071 Medicare Enrollment Assistance Program $75,000
21.029 Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund Program $39,870
21.027 Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds $22,113
14.169 Housing Counseling Assistance Program $21,200