Finding 1176347 (2025-001)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
AB
Questioned Costs
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Year
2025
Accepted
2026-03-03
Audit: 390168
Auditor: BDO USA PC

AI Summary

  • Issue: Two parking lot rental charges incorrectly included indirect costs.
  • Impact: This miscalculation affects the Modified Total Direct Costs (MTDC) and resulted in questioned costs of $338.
  • Follow-up: Ensure future rental costs are excluded from indirect cost calculations to prevent similar issues.

Finding Text

Auditors noted that two charges for parking lot rentals included a calculation of indirect costs. As these are rental costs, they should have been excluded from MTDC and the calculation of indirect costs. They recalculated indirect costs on the population of direct costs totaling $28,894,842 and found two exceptions as noted in the condition, resulting in known questioned costs of $338.

Corrective Action Plan

Management takes its responsibility to maintain effective internal control over the federal award that provides reasonable assurance that the agency is managing the federal award in compliance with federal statutes, regulations, and the terms and conditions of the award seriously and gave significant consideration to what additional controls would be effective to ensure the proper amount of indirect costs are charged to all federal grants. To prevent another occurrence, the organization will: On the final report to HS, the agency refunded the indirect costs that were overbilled in error. Continue its current policy that no individual who prepares bill/draw should review their own calculation of the draw/billing. Another individual will review and approve costs allowable for the draw/billing and recalculate the indirect costs. Continue its current policy that the Director of Grants Management complete a detailed review of each grant reconciliation monthly, to ensure all costs charged to the grant are reasonable and necessary for the performance of the award. This review will include appropriate tests of indirect costs including ensuring the appropriate indirect cost base is used, all items required to be excluded from the indirect cost base are excluded, and the appropriate indirect cost rate is applied to the indirect cost base. Add additional step whereby the monthly grant reconciliations will be reviewed by the Controller or Chief Financial Officer.

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Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
93.600 HEAD START $31.73M
93.870 MATERNAL, INFANT AND EARLY CHILDHOOD HOME VISITING GRANT $276,448
10.553 SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAM $140,895
10.558 CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM $86,927
93.667 SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT $70,826
10.555 NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM $19,286
21.027 CORONAVIRUS STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS $18,004
14.218 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS/ENTITLEMENT GRANTS $4,451