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Management Advisory Comments Identified in an Audit of the Consolidated Financial Statements, For the Year Ended September 30, 2021
We recommend the Director of OWCP reinforce existing policies and procedures requiring the completion of the review and approval of the Transaction Balancing sign-off sheet timely.
We recommend the Director of OWCP provide additional training to the reviewers regarding responsibilities and expectations when reviewing changes to claimant information to ensure reviews are completed timely and consistently.
We recommend the Chief Financial Officer update the policies and procedures to ensure that when adjustments are made to the financial statements any revised variances that exceed the acceptable threshold are properly investigated and documented, and the flux analysis is reviewed again.
We recommend the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for ETA provide reinforcement to reviewers to ensure reviews are performed at the appropriate level of precision.
We recommend that the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for ETA implement monitoring controls to periodically verify that management controls for estimates are operating effectively.
We recommend the Assistant Secretary for VETS monitor indirect cost schedule expiration dates and work with grantees to establish new cost allocation plans prior to grant closeout.
We recommend the Chief Financial Officer continue their efforts to fully implement the revised ERM process and ensure that all necessary risk assessments are completed at both the individual agency level and at the agency-wide level.
We recommend the Chief Information Officer enhance vulnerability scanning monitoring controls and procedures to track and remediate outstanding vulnerabilities in a timely manner.
We recommend the Chief Information Officer formally document decisions in a memorandum when accepting the risks of not remediating findings and obtain the necessary approvals from management.
FY 2021 Independent Auditor's Report on the DOL Financial Statements
We recommend that the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training develop policies and procedures to coordinate with State Workforce Agencies to obtain the necessary information needed to support related balances and assumptions, and to perform benchmarking and/or other analyses to validate new assumptions.
We recommend that the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training amend policies and procedures to provide specific steps to be performed during the reviews and the documentation requirements, which should include the specific items reviewed, analyses performed, and conclusions reached.
We recommend that the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training maintain documentation of the reviews performed to assess the reasonableness of the underlying data, assumptions, and formulas used in the models that is sufficiently detailed to evidence the specific items reviewed, analysis performed, and conclusions reached.
We recommend the Acting Chief Financial Officer develop policies and procedures to ensure that the accounting treatment for significant transactions are appropriately researched and documented prior to recording the transaction to the general ledger.
We recommend the Acting Chief Financial Officer enhance management review controls over the amounts that are presented in the notes to the financial statements.