Finding Text
Finding 2023-004 – REPORTING (repeat finding)
Type: Material weakness in Internal Control – Reporting
Program: Child Nutrition Cluster (ALN 10.553 and 10.555)
Condition: In six of the eleven months tested, the number of meals included on the reimbursement claim reports were not supported by the District’s internal count sheets.
Criteria: The District is required to claim meals served, by category, based on reports provided from individual meal serve counts.
Cause: Management oversight.
Effect: The District underclaimed reimbursements from August 2022 through January 2023 by a material amount. This issue was discovered and corrected in February 2023 and corrected meal claims for reimbursement were submitted.
Questioned Costs: None.
Recommendation: We recommend that the District review their process of reporting meal claims and make the necessary changes to ensure that all meals claimed for reimbursement agree to the District’s internal report of meals served.
Management’s Resp: We are in agreement with this finding