Finding 1227750 (2025-006)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
B
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2025
Accepted
2026-08-25
Audit: 409729
Organization: Aids Outreach Center (TX)

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: There is a control deficiency in how costs are managed, leading to incorrect coding for grant expenses.
  • Impacted Requirements: Compliance with 45 CFR 75 and Section 200.430 regarding the allowability and allocability of costs is not being met.
  • Recommended Follow-up: Management should review and update procedures to ensure all costs charged to the grant are reasonable and compliant.

Finding Text

Finding No. 2025‐006: Allowable costs – Control deficiency in internal control over compliance. 93.940 HIV Prevention Activities Health Department Based Criteria: In accordance with 45 CFR 75 – Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for HHS Awards, Subrecipient will develop, implement and maintain financial management and control systems, which include at a minimum accurate payroll, accounting and financial reporting records, cost source documentation, effective internal and budgetary controls, and determination of reasonableness, allowability and allocability of costs, and timely and appropriate audits and resolution findings. Condition: During our review, we noted that for 2 out of 8 sampled costs we were incorrectly coded and charged to the grant. Cause: The Organization failed to ensure that all costs charged to the grant were reasonable, allowable, and allocable to the grant. Effect: Improperly coded and charged costs could result in unallowable costs. Questioned costs: $2,932. Recommendation: Management should review the current procedures and the requirements of Section 200.430 and implement changes where necessary to ensure that costs are charged in accordance with Section 200.430. Management’s Response: See corrective action plan.

Corrective Action Plan

Effective June 2025, the Organization hired a Director of Finance to strengthen financial management, enhance internal controls, and improve oversight of financial reporting and federal grant compliance. Management corrected the grant coding and updated the applicable expense codes to ensure transportation-related costs are charged to the appropriate account. Finance staff now verify grant coding before expenditures are posted and reimbursement requests are submitted. The Director of Finance performs monthly reviews of grant expenditures to identify and correct coding errors before reimbursement requests are finalized.

Categories

Allowable Costs / Cost Principles Internal Control / Segregation of Duties

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 1227746 2025-002
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1227747 2025-003
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1227748 2025-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1227749 2025-005
    Material Weakness Repeat

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
14.241 HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS $551,452
93.914 HIV EMERGENCY RELIEF PROJECT GRANTS $444,203
93.917 HIV CARE FORMULA GRANTS $359,387
14.267 Rapid Housing Assistance $32,920
21.027 CORONAVIRUS STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS $19,145
93.940 HIV PREVENTION AND SURVEILLANCE ACTIVITIES-HEALTH DEPARTMENT BASED $13,006
97.024 EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER NATIONAL BOARD PROGRAM $1,208