Finding 565507 (2022-001)

Material Weakness
Requirement
P
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2022
Accepted
2025-06-20

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: PHDC failed to journalize $465,246 in program income, leading to an understatement in their financial records.
  • Impacted Requirements: This oversight violates OMB Compliance Supplement guidelines, which require accurate accounting of all program income as part of CDBG funds.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: PHDC should establish a formal reconciliation process to ensure program income in the general ledger matches amounts deducted from DHCD invoices.

Finding Text

Program: Community Development Block Grant Entitlement Grants Cluster. Federal Assistance Listing Number: 14.218 Criteria: Per the OMB Compliance Supplement, grantees must accurately account for any program income generated from the use of CDBG funds and must treat such income as additional CDBG funds which are subject to all program rules. Condition: PHDC did not journalize $465,246 in program income during the year. $4,034,754 of program income was accounted for in the general ledger, however, $4,500,000 was deducted from the invoices submitted to the Division of Housing and Community Development (“DHCD”). Cause: During the period under audit, there was not a formal reconciliation and review process over CDBG program income. Effect: PHDC’s program income balance per its general ledger was understated. Recommendation: We recommend that PHDC implement a reconciliation process for comparing the general ledger recorded program income to the amounts deducted from DHCD invoices. Management’s Response to Finding: PHDC is in agreement with this finding and will complete and implement a corrective action plan.

Corrective Action Plan

Finding 2022-001 Responsible Perseon(s): April Samuels, VP of Finance No month-end close, no four-eye review process and no account reconiliations PHDC acknowledges the issue noted above and is in the process and or will correct the deficienes by: -Implemented a month-end close cycle which significantly helps in establising team expectations, timely recording, reconcilling both of the balance sheet and income statement items, and improves financial reporting. -Defined staff roles/responsibilities and trained team members to understand the business, as well as their end-to-end process to help ensure accuracy and accountability. -Made great strides with maintaining monthly reconciliations; however their biggest opportunity has been reconciling the program activity/invoices submitted to DHCD in which they most recently implemented a DHCD reconcilliation that ties to the general ledger for the reviewer to verify before approving/submitting the invoice to DHCD.

Categories

Program Income

Other Findings in this Audit

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
21.023 Emergency Rental Assistance Program $164.63M
14.218 Community Development Block Grants/entitlement Grants $12.00M
93.568 Low-Income Home Energy Assistance $3.71M
14.239 Home Investment Partnerships Program $577,354