Finding 1165065 (2025-001)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
P
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2025
Accepted
2025-12-16

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: The District lacks enough personnel to properly separate financial functions, increasing risks related to financial reporting and asset protection.
  • Impacted Requirements: Effective internal controls are necessary to achieve financial reporting objectives and safeguard assets.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: Management should assess the current structure and explore cost-effective ways to enhance safeguards and internal controls.

Finding Text

The District does not possess sufficient personnel to propely segregate all financial functions to reduce risks of financial reporting objectives and provide safeguards for the organization's assets. The District's management and current organizational structure cannot separate duties sufficiently to reduce risks of financial reporting objectives and provide safeguards for the organizatoin's assts. Effective internal control over financial reporting should include control activities developed and maintained at various levels of the organization to reduce the risk to achieve financial reporting objectives and provide safeguards over the organization's assets. Management should continue to evaluate the current organizational structure and determine the cost/benefit to the organization to implement additional safeguards. The District agrees with the finding and the recommended procedures are being monitored on an onoing basis to evaluate and determine the most cost effective way to provide safeguards to the organization's assets and the related financial reporting objectives.

Corrective Action Plan

Management continues to monitor the situation to determine the cost/benefit to the District. Presently, management believes that the cost outwights the benefit to implement the particular safeguard.

Categories

Reporting Internal Control / Segregation of Duties

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 1165052 2025-001
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1165053 2025-001
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1165054 2025-001
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1165055 2025-001
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1165056 2025-001
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1165057 2025-001
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1165058 2025-001
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1165059 2025-001
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1165060 2025-001
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1165061 2025-001
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1165062 2025-001
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1165063 2025-001
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1165064 2025-001
    Material Weakness Repeat

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
10.555 NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM $957,658
84.027 SPECIAL EDUCATION GRANTS TO STATES $621,291
84.010 TITLE I GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES $427,258
84.424 STUDENT SUPPORT AND ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT PROGRAM $314,488
16.710 PUBLIC SAFETY PARTNERSHIP AND COMMUNITY POLICING GRANTS $241,660
84.287 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS $145,884
84.425 EDUCATION STABILIZATION FUND $145,521
84.367 SUPPORTING EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION STATE GRANTS (FORMERLY IMPROVING TEACHER QUALITY STATE GRANTS) $50,892
84.048 CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION -- BASIC GRANTS TO STATES $45,045
84.358 RURAL EDUCATION $39,217
93.354 PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY RESPONSE: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE: PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS RESPONSE $25,186
84.173 SPECIAL EDUCATION PRESCHOOL GRANTS $23,221
10.553 SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAM $2,813
84.365 ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION STATE GRANTS $2,348