2025-003-Cash Management MVRTD recognizes this material weakness. Several factors lead to the inaccurate billing noted in the audit. Firstly, it must be noted the during FY25 the MVRTD did not have a financial director on staff and the billing work was being performed by a staff accountant with no previous training in the billing of MVRTD specific grants and no written manuals or instructions were left behind to reference. Due to the fact allocations were set up to be calculated as an automatic entry inside of Passport ( our previous accounting system) and completed outside the system, there were no oversite measures that would have provided a way to prevent or identify duplicate transactions such as the overbilling that occurred. Since July 1, 2025, we have hired a full-time Finance Director and established a new accounting system. We have started using Quick Books Online (QBO), which is a much more detailed and comprehensive accounting system that allows us to be able to identify errors in the billing process and we established an entirely new cost allocation system that is outside of QBO. This ensures an internal and external check and balance system. All invoices and back-up are now being reviewed and approved by the Executive Director. Both the Finance Director and Executive Director will sign off on the invoices before submitting them to the state.