Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Work with action officials to determine the validity of all receivables from OIG sustained audit findings, determine whether restatement is necessary, and adjust HUD’s current and prior-year accounts receivable balances accordingly, ensuring that all writeoffs are reported to the Treasury.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Perform a validation, comparing the data used in OCFO’s PIH prepayment estimate calculation to the data used by PIH in its RNP reports to ensure that all CAM 1 codes and VMS fields are appropriately included. If it is determined that CAM 1 codes or VMS codes are missing or not properly included, OCFO should update the standard operating procedure and all estimates made to ensure that they are included.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Design and implement a procedure that ensures periodic communication between OCFO and PIH regarding all events that impact the PIH prepayment estimate.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Review FMC’s final December 31, 2016, balances and update the PIH prepayment beginning balance accordingly.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Design and implement a policy or procedure that ensures the accuracy of all information provided to HUD OCFO related to the PIH prepayment estimation methodology.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Delegate responsibilities to the appropriate program office and assign risk owners to provide responses for the acceptance, mitigation, and elimination of risks identified in HUD’s ERM risk profile.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Develop, implement, and document internal controls in response to identified risks from HUD’s ERM risk profile in compliance with OMB Circular No. A-123, Management's Responsibility for Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Control.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Complete and issue final FERA policy to the Department and communicate the requirements within the policy to program offices in a timely manner.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Assign and communicate the responsibility of FERA policy implementation and oversight to ensure that program offices are performing FERAs on a routine and timely basis to ensure effectiveness and efficiency of operations at the HUD program level and compliance with HUD internal policy and procedure.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Assign and communicate the responsibility of the MCR program policy, implementation, and oversight to ensure that program offices routinely conduct reviews to support a compliant internal control framework.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Conduct the OOR more frequently than annually to ensure that all obligations are adequately reviewed and deobligations are processed by the end of the fiscal year
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Develop departmental policy that outlines the open obligation review process, to include
(1) internal controls, (2) timeframes, and (3) roles and responsibilities of OCFO, OCPO, and program offices. These policies must outline sufficient internal controls in place to ensure that the Secretary can certify that all of HUD’s obligations are valid as of the end of the fiscal year.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Update standard operating procedures on the departmentwide unliquidated obligations review to conduct a routine review of justifications provided by the program offices for retained obligations, while ensuring that they are for a bonafide need and to support the annual certification made by the Secretary on open obligations.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
As part of the OOR process, conduct monitoring activities of obligations sent to OCPO for deobligation by developing a mechanism to routinely track the status, to include key information, such as but not limited to the owner (program), date transmitted to OCPO, point of contact, last contact date, and current status. OCFO should use this information to ensure that all information has been communicated among all parties involved to enable timely…
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Deobligate all obligations marked for deobligation during the departmentwide OOR, including as much as $7,517,486 in 187 program obligations and $62,183 in 9 administrative obligations marked for deobligation as of September 30, 2018.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Review the 473 identified inactive retained obligations with remaining balances totaling
$43,005,703 and close out and deobligate amounts tied to obligations that are no longer needed.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Deobligate all obligations marked for deobligation during the departmentwide OOR,
including as much as $51,396,319 in 735 administrative obligations and $5,350,112 in 68 program obligations marked for deobligation as of September 30, 2018.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Review the 65 identified inactive retained obligations with remaining balances totaling
$4,310,534 and close out and deobligate amounts tied to obligations that are no longer valid or needed
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Deobligate all obligations marked for deobligation during the departmentwide OOR,
including as much as $588,694 in 12 administrative obligations marked for deobligation as of September 30, 2018.
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Review the three identified retained inactive obligations with remaining balances totaling $78,069 and close out and deobligate amounts tied to obligations that are no longer valid or needed.