Finding 1175442 (2025-002)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
P
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2025
Accepted
2026-02-26
Audit: 389227
Organization: City of Sand Springs (OK)

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: Misstatements in capital asset additions totaling $188,328 for government-wide and $410,119 for business-type financial statements due to cutoff inaccuracies.
  • Impacted Requirements: Compliance with generally accepted accounting principles and accurate fiscal year postings.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: Implement enhanced controls and review procedures to prevent future errors in payment applications and invoice postings.

Finding Text

Finding 2025-002 – Capital Assets Additions Criteria: Proper fiscal year posting and accurate processing of applications for payment and invoices are required to ensure financial statements are free from material misstatement and comply with generally accepted accounting principles. Condition: Multiple factual misstatements were identified during the capital assets additions testing (cutoff inaccuracy): $55,008 was paid based on an incorrect application for payment that was supposed to be cancelled. $133,320 and $410,119 were posted to fiscal year 2025 but should have been posted to fiscal year 2026. The total factual misstatement is $188,328 within government wide and $410,119 within business type financial statements. Cause and Effect: The misstatements resulted from process deficiencies, including failure to cancel incorrect applications for payment and errors in posting invoices to the correct fiscal year, despite manual efforts to move encumbrances. These errors led to overstatements in governmental capital assets additions and business-type activity additions for fiscal year 2025, resulting in a combined significant deficiency in financial reporting. Recommendation: Enhanced controls and review procedures should be implemented to prevent recurrence of similar cutoff and accuracy errors. Management Response: Management acknowledges the issue. And will review and strengthen procedures to ensure proper fiscal year posting and prevent future inaccurate occurrences.

Corrective Action Plan

RE: Finding 2025-002 Capital Assets Additions/Cutoff Errors In conjunction with our FY25 annual audit, please see the City's corrective action plan below: The City of Sand Springs will implement enhanced internal controls and review procedures concerning capital asset additions to ensure invoices and applications for payment are accurately processed and recorded in the proper fiscal year. Specific corrective actions will include: Formalized Cutoff Review Process o Establish a documented year-end cutoff checklist for capital projects. o Require verification of invoice dates, application-for-payment periods, and substantial completion dates prior to posting. o Ensure all invoices and applications for payment are reviewed for proper fiscal year classification before approval. Improved Review of Applications for Payment o Require secondary review and approval of all applications for payment related to capital projects. o Implement a control to ensure cancelled or corrected applications for payment are clearly documented and removed from processing prior to payment. o Maintain supporting documentation evidencing review and approval. Encumbrance and Fiscal Year Posting Controls o Strengthen procedures for tracking encumbrances at year-end, including reconciliation between open encumbrances, invoices received, and capital asset postings. o Require supervisory review of all capital asset additions posted during the year-end close process to confirm proper fiscal year posting. Training and Accountability o Provide targeted training to finance and project management staff on fiscal year cutoff requirements and capital asset accounting. o Clearly define roles and responsibilities for invoice review, posting, and approval to reduce reliance on informal manual adjustments. Expected completion date: Procedures will be implemented for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, and applied during interim processing and year-end close. Party Responsible: Finance Director and Finance Staff, in coordination with applicable Department Heads and Project Managers. Contact Information: Arlena Barnes 918-246-2646 arlena.barnes@sandspringsok.gov

Categories

Reporting Significant Deficiency

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 1175441 2025-001
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1175443 2025-003
    Material Weakness Repeat

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
21.027 CORONAVIRUS STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS $2.00M
20.513 ENHANCED MOBILITY OF SENIORS AND INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES $105,958
16.710 PUBLIC SAFETY PARTNERSHIP AND COMMUNITY POLICING GRANTS $53,612
20.106 AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND JOBS ACT PROGRAMS, AND COVID-19 AIRPORTS PROGRAMS $10,882
16.607 BULLETPROOF VEST PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM $5,670
20.600 STATE AND COMMUNITY HIGHWAY SAFETY $1,644