Finding 555626 (2024-001)

Significant Deficiency
Requirement
P
Questioned Costs
$1
Year
2024
Accepted
2025-04-22
Audit: 354198
Organization: Tomball Pines, Inc. (TX)

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: Management did not record legal fees for 2024, leading to an understatement of expenses and payables.
  • Impacted Requirements: All expenses must be accurately recorded by year-end, as per financial reporting standards.
  • Recommended Follow-up: Management should regularly review invoices and ensure timely accrual of expenses from prior periods.

Finding Text

Schedule reference number 2024-001. Title and AL Number of Federal Program: Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities (Section 811), AL 14.181 -Type of finding: Financial statement -Resolution status: In process -Population size: N/A -Sample size: N/A -Repeat finding: No. -Criteria: All expenses for the year ended December 31, 2024 should be recorded to the books. -Condition: Management failed to accrue legal fees pertaining to the year ended December 31, 2024 for which the invoice was dated in November 2024 but not received or paid until January 2025. -Cause: Management oversight. -Effect: The Project's expenses and payables for the year ended December 31, 2024 were understated. -Noncompliance code: S. Internal control deficiency -Questioned cost: $12,491. -Reporting views of officials: Management agrees with the finding. -Context: This was noted while performing certain procedures to search for unrecorded liabilities during the audit. -Recommendation: Management should review invoices received and payments done in the subsequent period and accrue the expenses relating to the prior period. -Auditors' summary of auditee's comments: They are in agreement. -Completion date: 12/31/25 -Response: Governance agrees with the comments and will ensure that all transactions are properly recorded.

Corrective Action Plan

2024 Corrective Action Plan - Audit Finding 2024-001: Management failed to accrue legal fees pertaining to the year ended December 31, 2024 for which the invoice was dated in November 2024 but not received or paid until January 2025. - Response: Management did not receive the invoice until January 24, 2025 and did not know how much it was going to be so had not accrued it at year end. Management understands the need to accrue for expenses in the period to which they relate and will make an effort in the future to review invoices received subsequent to year end to ensure that any material amounts are accrued in the proper period. - Name and Title of contact person responsible for corrective action: Steve Colella, - Making a Difference in Property Management, LLC - Management Agent - 6800 Park Ten Blvd, Ste 184-W - San Antonio, TX 78213

Categories

Questioned Costs Internal Control / Segregation of Duties HUD Housing Programs Reporting

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 1132068 2024-001
    Significant Deficiency

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
14.181 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities $200,714