Finding: 2022-001 84.425U - ARP ESSER Criteria: The School should only request funds for reimbursement that relate to qualifying expenditures. Condition: The School utilizes a software to track all allowable expenses incurred during the period for reimbursement. Cause: During the year ended August 31, 2021, the School incorrectly submitted for reimbursement $78,606 in excess of qualifying expenditures. Effect: The School submitted for reimbursement and recognized federal awards revenue in excess of qualifying expenditures for the year ended August 31, 2021. Correspondingly, the School reduced the amount of expenditures submitted for reimbursement for the year ended August 31, 2022. Questioned cost: No questioned costs requiring disclosure. Recommendation: We recommend that management perform a detailed review of expenditures before submitting for reimbursement to ensure that all expenditures submitted are allowable. Views of responsible officials: RAPS agrees with the above finding. Corrective Action Plan: RAPS has put into place a procedure in which the bookkeeper will prepare the monthly federal reimbursement requests and provide a reconciling report and general ledger report to the CFO for review and verification of costs before the reimbursement request is submitted to TEA for payment. 1020 Elm Ave Waco, Texas 76704 11 (254) 754-8000 ***.rapoportacademy.org