Finding 529197 (2024-001)

Significant Deficiency
Requirement
L
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2024
Accepted
2025-03-20
Audit: 347183
Organization: Jewish Family Service (MI)

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: Internal controls failed to ensure timely reporting of sub-award information to the FSRS as required by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act.
  • Impacted Requirements: The Organization did not meet the reporting criteria outlined in the Uniform Guidance for sub-awards.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: Management should fully understand FSRS reporting requirements and strengthen controls to ensure accurate and timely submissions.

Finding Text

Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Assistance Listing Number: 93.493 Program: Community Funded Projects (Saving Lives!) Criteria: The Organization should have controls in place to ensure that sub-award information is properly reported in the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act Subaward Reporting System (FSRS) in accordance with Uniform Guidance. Condition: The Organization's internal controls failed to identify the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act requirements for the award. Cause: Management was unaware of the requirement. Effect: Information was not submitted to the FSRS in a timely manner. Questioned costs: There were no questioned costs. Context: All sub-awards subject to Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act requirements must be reported within the FSRS portal in a timely manner. Recommendation: We recommend management gain an understanding of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act reporting requirements and implement controls to ensure all reporting requirements with FSRS are completed accurately and timely. Management's Response: Management agrees with the audit finding detected during the fiscal year ended May 31, 2024. Management has implemented procedures around FSFR reporting to ensure that sub-awards subject to the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act are reported within the FSRS portal accurately and timely.

Corrective Action Plan

Finding: For sub-awards subject to the Transparency Act, the awarding entity must enter the award information in agreement with the award contract to the FSRS portal. Management was unaware of the requirement for award information to be input into the FSRS portal for a sub-award that was subject to the Transparency Act. Corrective Action: 1. Review and ensure policies are up to date and comply with the federal awards that are subject to the Funding Accountability and Transparency Act. 2. For new federal awards, identify whether the award is subject to the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act and develop a task list to ensure the reporting requirement is fulfilled timely. 3. Designate the reporting responsibility with respect to FFATA reporting to the accounting manager with oversight from the Controller and CFOO. 4. Establish periodic meetings between programs, compliance and finance to report on the FFATA compliance when applicable.

Categories

Subrecipient Monitoring Reporting

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 1105639 2024-001
    Significant Deficiency

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
93.493 Community Funded Projects (saving Lives!) $487,723
93.048 Person-Centered, Trauma-Informed Service $310,982
20.513 Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities $261,788
93.332 Cooperative Agreement to Support Navigators in Federally-Facilitated Exchanges $129,344
21.027 Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds $82,477
97.024 Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program $15,255