Finding 524459 (2024-001)

Significant Deficiency
Requirement
G
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2024
Accepted
2025-02-25

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: The Organization failed to conduct required after-the-fact reviews of salary and wage charges to the Federal award.
  • Impacted Requirements: This oversight means salary and wage costs may not accurately reflect actual employee activity, potentially violating grant guidelines.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: Implement a control system to ensure regular reviews of salary and wage charges against budget estimates for compliance.

Finding Text

Condition - During the testing of 4 of 12 monthly salary and wage charges, totaling $300,054, we noted that the Organization did not perform a periodic after-the-fact review of the salaries and wages charged to the Federal award based on budget estimates. Cause - The Organization did not have a control in place to ensure that after-the-fact reviews were performed on salaries and wages that were charged to the Federal award based on budget estimates. Effect or Potential Effect - As a result, the Organization could have charged salary and wage costs to the grant that did not accurately reflect the total activity for the employees compensated. Questioned Costs - None Context - The total population for the activities allowed/cost principle testing is each monthly allocation of salary and wages to the Federal award. The conditions outlined above are based on our testing of the Organization's allowable costs/cost principles of the major program using a statistically valid sample. The nature of this finding is detailed in the condition section above.

Corrective Action Plan

- Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri is implementing a monthly after-the-fact review process and control to ensure that the salary expense charged to the grant is reasonable based on actual time and effort of the employees performing procedures for the grant program

Categories

Allowable Costs / Cost Principles

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 1100901 2024-001
    Significant Deficiency

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
93.217 Family Planning Services $928,004
93.977 Sexually Transmitted Diseases (std) Prevention and Control Grants $72,263