Finding 618728 (2022-004)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
P
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2022
Accepted
2022-11-15

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: Lack of adequate personnel leads to insufficient segregation of duties in transaction handling.
  • Impacted Requirements: Internal controls must ensure that authorization, recording, and custody of assets are managed by different employees.
  • Recommended Follow-up: Assess staffing levels and consider reallocating resources or hiring to improve internal control effectiveness.

Finding Text

2022-004 Internal Control Structure Design Program: Child Nutrition Cluster CFDA# 10.555 & 10.553 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 School Nutrition Programs

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 42284 2022-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 42285 2022-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 42286 2022-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 618726 2022-004
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 618727 2022-004
    Material Weakness Repeat

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
84.425 Education Stabilization Fund $336,784
10.553 School Breakfast Program $212,782
84.010 Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies $160,404
10.555 National School Lunch Program $122,793
84.027 Special Education_grants to States $43,001
84.367 Improving Teacher Quality State Grants $36,761
93.778 Medical Assistance Program $10,004
84.173 Special Education_preschool Grants $6,161