Finding No. 2022-001: Allowable costs ? Significant deficiency in internal control over compliance. The 21st Century grant director was provided a PEX card (prepaid credit card) to make purchases for the program. The purchases were approved per the budgeted line items by the grantor. The CFO met with the program director on a bi-weekly basis and the program director outlined all anticipated expenses for the program. They were discussed and approved during the meeting but were not physically documented. The purchases were made and receipts were uploaded into the PEX system, however there was no signature on the receipts to document the approval. These expenses were later reviewed and summarized by the CFO in an Excel spreadsheet prior to billing the grantor. We have incorporated and communicated changes to our policy and standard procedure to ensure the documentation of manager?s approval of invoices are kept on file. Employees under the 21st Century program have been trained and approval of purchases are now physically documented electronically as of January of 2023. Given CISDR's expanded workload and doubling the number of schools from two years prior, the Finance team was functioning with one full time CFO and one part time accountant. In March 2023 we hired a full-time senior accountant to manage the internal controls compliance over expenditures. The plan has already been implemented.