Finding 1172771 (2025-005)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
L
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2025
Accepted
2026-02-06
Audit: 386055
Auditor: SCHEFFEL BOYLE

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: The final expenditure report included costs from the previous fiscal year instead of the current quarter.
  • Impacted Requirements: Grant reporting must align with the general ledger to ensure accurate financial representation.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: Reconcile budgeted amounts with general ledger totals and expenditure reports prior to submission.

Finding Text

Criteria: Compliance Finding - Reporting. Grant expenditure reporting should be supported by the school's general ledger. Condition: The final report at 8/31/24 includes an expenditure that should have been claimed in the Q1 report. Questioned Costs: None. Context: The District reported $8,299 of expenditures in the final 2024 report in cost object & function 2230-300. Per review of actual expenditures, the District included $8,299 of expenses occuring in July and August of 2023. This should have been picked up on the Q1 2024-4300 report as a FY24 expenditures. Expense was allowable under the terms of the grant and occured during the grant period, but was picked up on the final report instead of the first report. Effect: The District 8/31/24 report included expenses occuring in the prior fiscal year. Cause: This was an oversight by management personnel in the District. The District mistakenly picked up the wrong total on the general ledger report used to claim expenses. Recommendation: We recommend reconciling the budgeted amount to the general ledger totals and reconciling those to expenditure reports before submitting. Management's Response: The District will review the budgeted cost of items and the amount recorded in the general ledger against the expenditure reports before submitting.

Corrective Action Plan

Condition: The final 2024 Title I grant report at 8/31/24 includes an expenditure that should have been claimed in the first report. Recommendation: We recommend implementing an additional reconciliation process in grant reporting that compares the budgeted cost of items to the amount recorded in the general ledger against the grant reports before submission. Management Response: The District will take the necessary steps to review expenditure reports to ensure they capture expenses within the appropriate quarterly report. Anticipated Date of Completion: June 30, 2026

Categories

Reporting Internal Control / Segregation of Duties

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 1172770 2025-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1172772 2025-006
    Material Weakness Repeat

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
84.027 SPECIAL EDUCATION GRANTS TO STATES $322,536
84.010 TITLE I GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES $272,380
10.553 SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAM $50,336
84.367 SUPPORTING EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION STATE GRANTS (FORMERLY IMPROVING TEACHER QUALITY STATE GRANTS) $43,312
93.778 MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM $26,483
84.424 STUDENT SUPPORT AND ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT PROGRAM $25,664
84.173 SPECIAL EDUCATION PRESCHOOL GRANTS $15,800
10.555 NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM $12,221
84.425 EDUCATION STABILIZATION FUND $10,235
10.185 LOCAL FOOD FOR SCHOOLS COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT PROGRAM $2,711