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Significant Deficiency in Internal Control over Allowable Costs Criteria: Internal control processes should include procedures to ensure all employee payroll allocations are routinely reconciled, supported by appropriate documentation such as timecards, and adjusted to reflect the correct allocation for submission reimbursement in accordance with grant agreements. Condition: During our audit, we noted several employees? wages were not allocated to the grant the employees were performing services. The allocation of payroll expenses didn?t reconcile to signed and approved timecards for the pay period. Cause: Due to not reconciling the spreadsheets used to calculate grant reimbursement back to the approved employee timecards for the pay period. Effect: The lack of reconciliation caused the grant allocations to be inaccurately stated by an approximated projected amount of $2,000. The allocation error of employees? payroll expenses resulted in the Organization requesting and receive grant reimbursement for payroll expenses that were incurred by a different grant agreement.