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.