Finding 1168900 (2024-004)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
L
Questioned Costs
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Year
2024
Accepted
2026-01-13
Audit: 381297
Organization: Improve Your Tomorrow (CA)

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: IYT submitted its Audited Financial Statements and Single Audit Report late, nine months after the due date.
  • Impacted Requirements: Compliance with federal reporting deadlines as outlined in 2 CFR §200.512.
  • Recommended Follow-up: IYT should establish a process to ensure timely completion and submission of audits by the required deadline.

Finding Text

Finding 2024-004 – Significant Deficiency – Late Submission of Single Audit Federal Grantor: Corporation for National and Community Service Passed-through: Office of Planning Research California Volunteers Pass-through Grantor’s No.: 21ACIY29-C192 Compliance Requirement: Reporting Condition: IYT submitted its Audited Financial Statements and Single Audit Report to the federal clearinghouse in December 2025, nine months after it was due. Criteria: IYT was required to submit its Audited Financial Statements and Single Audit Report to the federal audit clearinghouse no later than March 31, 2025, nine months after the fiscal year-end (2 Code of Federal Regulations §200.512). Effect: Federal awarding agencies may deny future federal awards or subject IYT to additional cash monitoring requirements. This finding was not a result of internal control over individual federal programs and, accordingly, did not have a direct and material effect on the reporting requirements over IYT’s major federal programs. Cause: IYT did not to prepare its Audited Financial Statements and Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards in a timely manner due to turnover in personnel. Recommendation: IYT needs to ensure that it can close its books and submit its Audited Financial Statements and Single Audit Report to the federal audit clearinghouse no later than the statutory reporting deadline. Views of Responsible Officials and Planned Corrective Actions: Management concurs with the finding and is working on developing a process for ensuring that audits can be completed more timely.

Corrective Action Plan

Finding Reference Number: 2024-004 Description of Finding: IYT submitted its Audited Financial Statements and Single Audit Report to the federal clearinghouse in December 2025, nine months after it was due. IYT was required to submit its Audited Financial Statements and Single Audit Report to the federal audit clearinghouse no later than March 31, 2025. Federal awarding agencies may deny future federal awards or subject IYT to additional cash monitoring requirements. Statement of Concurrence or Nonconcurrence: We concur with the audit finding. Corrective Action: IYT acknowledges the late submission of the FY23-24 Single Audit and recognizes delays in the FY24-25 audit timeline as well. This reflects a breakdown in internal ownership and process awareness related to the Single Audit. IYT takes the full responsibility for implementing new internal systems, including a detailed audit readiness timeline, early preparation of the SEFA, and clear role assignments. To prevent future late submissions and ensure the process is sustainable regardless of staff turnover, IYT will implement cross-training staff members to ensure that moving forward, there are no dependency issues leading to the late start and submission of the audited financials. IYT will start the audit fieldwork in January 2026 with final submission to the federal clearinghouse by the March 31, 2026 deadline.

Categories

Reporting Subrecipient Monitoring Significant Deficiency

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
94.006 AMERICORPS STATE AND NATIONAL 94.006 $2.40M