Quality Control Review of the Management Letter for the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation’s Audited Financial Statements for Fiscal Year 2023

Submitting OIG:

Department of Transportation OIG

Report Description:

What We Looked At This report presents the results of our quality control review of Allmond & Company LLC’s (Allmond) management letter for its audit, conducted under contract with us, of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation’s (GLS) financial statements for fiscal year 2023. The management letter discusses two internal control matters that Allmond was not required to include in its audit report. What We Found Our quality control review of the management letter disclosed no instances in which Allmond did not comply, in all material respects, with U.S. generally accepted Government auditing standards. Our Recommendations Allmond made two recommendations in its management letter. GLS concurred with both recommendations.

Date Issued:

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Agency Reviewed / Investigated:

Department of Transportation

Submitting OIG-Specific Report Number:

QC2024014

Component, if applicable:

Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

Location(s):

Agency-Wide

Type of Report:

Audit

Questioned Costs:

Funds for Better Use:

Number of Recommendations:

Report updated under NDAA 5274:

Additional Details Link:

https://www.oig.dot.gov/library-item/46134

Recommendation Number	Recommendation Status	Significant Recommendation
1	Open	Yes
Allmond recommends that GLS develop written policies and procedures for the annual monitoring of all user accounts. For user accounts relating to service organization systems, GLS should proactively generate or request a listing of user accounts, if one is not already provided by the service organization, and perform a review of the current system users and their permissions. The reviews should be documented and evidence of the review for each system should be retained according to the Agency’s document retention policy.
2	Open	Yes
Allmond recommends that GLS should amend its policies and procedures to require the review and retention of external source documentation, such as original receipts, purchase confirmations, and other purchase verification for all purchase card transactions, so that: this information can be compared to the purchase order, purchase card log, and other internally-created documentation during the approval process, and the information is readily available for external review.

Recommendation Number

Recommendation Status

Significant Recommendation

Additional Details

Open

Yes

Allmond recommends that GLS develop written policies and procedures for the annual monitoring of all user accounts. For user accounts relating to service organization systems, GLS should proactively generate or request a listing of user accounts, if one is not already provided by the service organization, and perform a review of the current system users and their permissions. The reviews should be documented and evidence of the review for each system should be retained according to the Agency’s document retention policy.

Open

Yes

Allmond recommends that GLS should amend its policies and procedures to require the review and retention of external source documentation, such as original receipts, purchase confirmations, and other purchase verification for all purchase card transactions, so that: this information can be compared to the purchase order, purchase card log, and other internally-created documentation during the approval process, and the information is readily available for external review.

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Quality Control Review of the Management Letter for the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation’s Audited Financial Statements for Fiscal Year 2023

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