View of Responsible Officials and Planned Corrective Action: EC3 agrees with the recommendation of its auditor, Maher Duessel, that the EC3 Finance Department must ensure that EC3 follows the approved and compliant purchasing practices. However, in the beginning, the College was still in a start-up mode and most of its essential purchases from Vendors could not meet EC3?s aggressive timetable to get the College up and running. So being practical, the College needed to act fast to get its provisions in place to get the College up and running, and although this was an informal process, the Management team diligently reviewed, justified, and approved all the purchases based on the supporting documentation. As of August 2022, the Finance Department has recognized the lack of internal control over the financial purchasing process and has informally enforced the purchasing policy. The Finance Department will be reviewing all EC3 financial policies, including its purchasing policy and will be making recommendations to the EC3?s Cabinet and Board of Trustees. The Finance Department will and must enforce the purchasing policy, once approved, update the policy online and ensure the policy is followed by EC3 staff and its compliant with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Policies.