Finding 588946 (2022-002)

Material Weakness
Requirement
P
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2022
Accepted
2022-11-09

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: The district lacks adequate personnel to ensure that different employees manage separate parts of the same transaction, leading to a significant internal control weakness.
  • Impacted Requirements: Internal controls must ensure that authorization, recording, and custody of assets are handled by different individuals to minimize risks.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: Assess staffing needs and consider reallocating resources or hiring additional personnel to improve segregation of duties and strengthen internal controls.

Finding Text

MATERIAL WEAKNESS 2022-002 Internal Control Structure Design Program: ESSER II & III Assistance Listing # 84.425 REAP Assistance Listing # 84.358 Condition: Adequate personnel are not available to assign responsibilities in such a way that different employees handle different parts of the same transaction. Cause: District has limited number of personnel. Criteria: Internal controls should be in place that provides reasonable assurance that authorization or approval of transactions, recording of transactions, and custody of assets are segregated activities. Effect: Due to the absence of segregation of duties, the level of risk that errors or irregularities, material in relation to the financial statements, may occur and not be detected within a timely period by the employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, has not been reduced to a relatively low level.

Categories

Internal Control / Segregation of Duties Material Weakness

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 12504 2022-002
    Material Weakness
  • 12505 2022-002
    Material Weakness
  • 588947 2022-002
    Material Weakness

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
84.425 Education Stabilization Fund $321,374
84.010 Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies $118,307
93.576 Refugee and Entrant Assistance_discretionary Grants $101,837
84.358 Rural Education $43,394
93.778 Medical Assistance Program $31,233
10.553 School Breakfast Program $27,147
10.555 National School Lunch Program $10,990
84.027 Special Education_grants to States $6,365
10.559 Summer Food Service Program for Children $1,857
84.173 Special Education_preschool Grants $1,001