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2024-002: Internal Control Over Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards Federal Grantor: U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Pass-Through Grantor: Missouri Department of Public Safety, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Federal Assistance Listing Number: 15.226, 15.659, 21.027, 21.032, 93.323, 97.137 Program Title: Payments in Lieu of Taxes, National Wildlife Refuge Fund, Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds, Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Fund, Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases, State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program Pass-through Entity Identifying Number: N/A Award Year: 2023 and 2024 Questioned Costs: None Criteria: 2 CFR 200.510(b) requires auditees to prepare a schedule of expenditures of federal awards (SEFA) which must report total federal awards expended during the audit period. At a minimum, the schedule must include: expenditures by individual federal program, name of the pass-through entity and identifying number for awards not received directly from the federal government, and the total amount provided to subrecipients from each federal program. This finding was noted in the prior audit for the year ending December 31, 2022 as item 2022-005. Condition: The SEFA reported by the County in the 2024 and 2025 annual budget documents contained errors in amounts of federal expenditures reported. Discrepancies in amounts reported on the 2024 SEFA and amounts supported by underlying accounting records are summarized as follows: Discrepancies in amounts reported on the 2023 SEFA and amounts supported by underlying accounting records are summarized as follows: Cause: The County has not implemented a proper system of internal controls over SEFA preparation, such as reconciliation to underlying accounting records or having a separate individual review the SEFA for clerical accuracy after it had been prepared. The County believed that federal grant reimbursements did not have to be reported on the SEFA. Effect: The SEFA presented for audit did not accurately reflect the County’s actual expenditures of federal awards for both the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023. Recommendation: We recommend that the County implement internal controls to ensure that the SEFA completely and accurately states the expenditures of federal awards of the County each year.