Finding 518905 (2024-004)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
P
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2024
Accepted
2025-01-13

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: Lack of adequate personnel leads to insufficient segregation of duties in financial transactions.
  • Impacted Requirements: Internal controls must ensure that authorization, recording, and custody of assets are handled by different employees.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: Explore cost-effective ways to segregate duties to reduce risk of errors and irregularities.

Finding Text

MATERIAL WEAKNESS 2024-004 Internal Control Structure Design Program: Child Nutrition Assistance Listing # 10.555 & 10.553 ESSER III Assistance Listing # 84.425 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. Repeat Finding: Immediately preceding year. Recommendation: While considering the cost of any benefits derived, activities should be segregated and handled by different employees. Questioned Costs: $0.00 Grantee Response/Corrective Action Plan: The cost of implementing a complete set of controls far outweighs the benefits derived by such. It is not financially feasible to have a complete set of controls.

Categories

Internal Control / Segregation of Duties Material Weakness School Nutrition Programs

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 518902 2024-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 518903 2024-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 518904 2024-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1095344 2024-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1095345 2024-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1095346 2024-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1095347 2024-004
    Material Weakness Repeat

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
84.425 Education Stabilization Fund $630,250
10.555 National School Lunch Program $158,693
84.010 Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies $145,305
10.553 School Breakfast Program $35,351
84.367 Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants (formerly Improving Teacher Quality State Grants) $30,075
84.027 Special Education Grants to States $13,647
93.778 Medical Assistance Program $7,629
84.173 Special Education Preschool Grants $6,665