Adequately support or reimburse its NSP3 grant subrecipient $53,760 from non-Federal funds for the disbursements not adequately supported.

Update its records retention policy to meet HUD’s records retention requirements and notify its NSP subrecipients of the documentation retention requirements for the NSP grants.

Develop a retention strategy for its subrecipients to ensure that documentation is readily available for review.

Deobligate all obligations marked for deobligation during the departmentwide OOR, including as much as $11,463,971 in 189 program obligations and $13,640 in 10 administrative obligations marked for deobligation as of September 30, 2017.

Review the 1,110 identified inactive retained obligations with remaining balances totaling $229,327,332 and close out and deobligate amounts tied to obligations that are no longer valid or needed.

Close out and deobligate the remaining balances on 2,741 expired homeless assistance contracts of $159,437,069.

Implement a repeatable and sustainable process to prepare timely and accurate quarterly financial statement notes, including third and fourth quarter notes within the OMB required timeframe.

Establish policies and procedures for recording the budget authority apportioned to HUD during a continuing resolution, including both the proprietary and budgetary transactions.

Ensure that the budget execution policies and procedures are properly delegated, assigned, and communicated to the personnel fulfilling these responsibilities.

Ensure that the budget execution procedures executed internally by OCFO Budget are consistent with those established by ARC.

Develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure that intragovernmental differences identified with U.S. Treasury’s General Fund are resolved on a timely basis with corrective action plans.

Work with PIH to develop and implement a consistent and reasonable methodology for determining the PIH prepayment that (1) allows for timely recording of financial events, (2) complies with GAAP, and (3) provides an adequate audit trail until the cash management process is automated.

Develop and implement procedures to ensure that the methodology is reevaluated by PIH and OCFO annually and any changes do not compromise (1) the audit trial, (2) compliance with GAAP, or (3) the accuracy of the balance.

Reopen recommendation 2016-FO-0003-002-A, “Evaluate the IHBG investment process and implement a proper accounting treatment in accordance with Federal GAAP.”

Reopen recommendation 2016-FO-0003-002-B, “Work with the Office of Native American Programs to calculate the amounts advanced to grantees and restate HUD’s financial statements to recognize the prepayments on the financial statements.”

Reopen recommendation 2016-FO-0003-002-C, “Develop standard operating procedures for routinely obtaining information on grantee investment activity and accurately reporting amounts in HUD’s general ledger and financial statements.”

Remove the waiver concerning the completion and submission of the SF-425 by CPD’s grantees and implement a process to collect SF-425 information electronically. This process should begin with initial (and ongoing) grant documentation containing specific requirements stating that the Federal Financial Report should be properly completed and required to be submitted quarterly, semiannually, or annually (depending on the grant type and applicable program requirements).

During the implementation process of the waiver removal and collection of SF-425 data, ensure that CPD verifies the accuracy of the accrual data collected from the grantees and provided to its contractor conducting the validation methodology and retain documentation showing that it has independently verified that the contractors resulting accrual estimation information is accurate.

Develop and implement a formal process to (1) track and age the suspense accounts by individual transaction detail, (2) perform regular monitoring of all suspense (clearing) accounts, and (3) promptly research transactions entered into the suspense accounts to ensure that they are posted to the appropriate TAS within 60 days.

Implement an information system or system application that can produce HUD’s consolidated financial statement notes accurately and in a timely manner.