Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2017 and 2016 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Develop standard operating procedures for implementing accounting changes, including steps to assess the appropriate impact on each treasury account symbol.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2017 and 2016 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Review all of Ginnie Mae’s TAS’s to determine the appropriate accounting treatment for anticipated collections, make the appropriate adjustments as determined necessary, apply this process going forward, and make restatements if necessary. The CFO should ensure that the accounting treatment follows the USSGL guidance through all phases of the anticipated collection (before collection and after collection).
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2017 and 2016 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
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.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2017 and 2016 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
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.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2017 and 2016 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Reopen recommendation 2016-FO-0003-002-A, “Evaluate the IHBG investment process and implement a proper accounting treatment in accordance with Federal GAAP.”
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2017 and 2016 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
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.”
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2017 and 2016 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
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.”
HUD Did Not Have Adequate Controls To Ensure That Partial Claim Notes for FHA Loans Were Properly Tracked for Future Collection
Coordinate with the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Finance and Budget to board 350 manually paid partial claims that were not boarded into SMART, resulting in funds to be put to better use in the amount of $2,297,706.
HUD Did Not Have Adequate Controls To Ensure That Partial Claim Notes for FHA Loans Were Properly Tracked for Future Collection
Remove 24 duplicate partial claim note entries from SMART, resulting in funds to be put to better use in the amount of $697,354.
HUD Did Not Have Adequate Controls To Ensure That Partial Claim Notes for FHA Loans Were Properly Tracked for Future Collection
Obtain the missing mortgage documents for 33 loans and the missing note documents for 40 loans, totaling $644,767 in partial claim notes, and require any unrecorded mortgage documents to be recorded at the appropriate county’s office to ensure that HUD’s interests are protected. For any missing documents that cannot be obtained, the Deputy Assistant Secretary should require the lender to reimburse HUD for the partial claim note.
HUD Did Not Have Adequate Controls To Ensure That Partial Claim Notes for FHA Loans Were Properly Tracked for Future Collection
Review 249 loans labeled with “DNV” in appendix D to identify any missing note or mortgage documents for the partial claims. For loans identified with missing documents, the Deputy Assistant Secretary should obtain the documents or require the lender to reimburse HUD for the partial claim note. For loans identified with unrecorded mortgage documents, the Deputy Assistant Secretary should require them to be recorded at the county’s office to…
HUD Did Not Have Adequate Controls To Ensure That Partial Claim Notes for FHA Loans Were Properly Tracked for Future Collection
Coordinate with the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Finance and Budget to record lender payments to update the balances for 139 loans in SMART, resulting in funds to be put to better use in the amount of $1,055,113.
HUD Did Not Have Adequate Controls To Ensure That Partial Claim Notes for FHA Loans Were Properly Tracked for Future Collection
Rerecord the mortgage documents at the respective counties’ offices for 18 loans for which the partial claim mortgages were inappropriately released, resulting in funds to be put to better use in the amount of $451,000.
HUD Did Not Have Adequate Controls To Ensure That Partial Claim Notes for FHA Loans Were Properly Tracked for Future Collection
Review four loans with partial claim notes already recorded in SMART and remove those loans in which HUD has not paid a partial claim, resulting in funds to be put to better use in the amount of $93,409.
HUD Did Not Have Adequate Controls To Ensure That Partial Claim Notes for FHA Loans Were Properly Tracked for Future Collection
Reverse the transaction for one loan for which the transaction removing a partial claim note was made in error, resulting in funds to be put to better use in the amount of $63,591.
HUD Did Not Have Adequate Controls To Ensure That Partial Claim Notes for FHA Loans Were Properly Tracked for Future Collection
Collect on one partial claim note for which the loan had matured, resulting in funds to be put to better use in the amount of $1,905.
HUD Did Not Have Adequate Controls To Ensure That Partial Claim Notes for FHA Loans Were Properly Tracked for Future Collection
Review two loans in which the partial claim note amount entered was different from the note or mortgage amount to ensure that the appropriate partial claim note amount is entered into SMART, resulting in funds to be put to better use in the amount of $622.
HUD Did Not Have Adequate Controls To Ensure That Partial Claim Notes for FHA Loans Were Properly Tracked for Future Collection
Update its procedures to allow automatic boarding for all partial claims paid to eliminate errors caused by manual boarding, including partial claim notes not boarded, and partial claim notes boarded but not yet paid by HUD.
HUD Did Not Have Adequate Controls To Ensure That Partial Claim Notes for FHA Loans Were Properly Tracked for Future Collection
Develop and implement procedures and controls to board all manually paid partial claims and record all lender payments received via claim remittances.
HUD Did Not Have Adequate Controls To Ensure That Partial Claim Notes for FHA Loans Were Properly Tracked for Future Collection
Develop and implement additional controls to ensure that it accepts only note and mortgage documents with correct amounts that could be matched to the amount recorded in SMART and that the note and mortgage documents marked as received are entered into SMART.