Finding 21298 (2022-002)

Material Weakness
Requirement
P
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2022
Accepted
2022-11-14

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: The district lacks adequate personnel to ensure that different employees manage separate parts of financial transactions.
  • Impacted Requirements: Internal controls must ensure that authorization, recording, and custody of assets are handled by different individuals to minimize risk.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: Assess staffing levels and consider reallocating responsibilities or hiring additional personnel to improve segregation of duties.

Finding Text

MATERIAL WEAKNESS 2022-002 Internal Control Structure Design Program: Child Nutrition Cluster Assistance Listing # 10.555 & 10.553 Condition: Adequate personnel are not available to assign responsibilities in such a way that different employees handle different parts of the same transaction. Cause: District has limited number of personnel. Criteria: Internal controls should be in place that provides reasonable assurance that authorization or approval of transactions, recording of transactions, and custody of assets are segregated activities. Effect: Due to the absence of segregation of duties, the level of risk that errors or irregularities, material in relation to the financial statements, may occur and not be detected within a timely period by the employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, has not been reduced to a relatively low level.

Categories

Internal Control / Segregation of Duties Material Weakness School Nutrition Programs

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 21297 2022-002
    Material Weakness
  • 21299 2022-002
    Material Weakness
  • 597739 2022-002
    Material Weakness
  • 597740 2022-002
    Material Weakness
  • 597741 2022-002
    Material Weakness

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
84.010 Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies $54,318
10.553 School Breakfast Program $45,975
84.358 Rural Education $41,217
10.555 National School Lunch Program $29,201
93.778 Medical Assistance Program $26,328
84.367 Improving Teacher Quality State Grants $11,366
84.048 Career and Technical Education -- Basic Grants to States $1,953
84.027 Special Education_grants to States $1,755
84.425 Education Stabilization Fund $1,325
84.173 Special Education_preschool Grants $750