National Endowment for the Arts Office of Inspector General Semiannual Report to Congress

During this reporting period, we issued the audit of National Endowment for the Art’s (NEA) fiscal year 2015 financial statements, two audit reports on grantees, one special review report on NEA compliance with information security, one memorandum report on NEA management challenges, one briefing review on internal compliance, and issued one desk audit review and summary of a grantee Single Audit. Also, the NEA issued two debarments resulting from recommendations of a prior Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit report. Additionally, the OIG issued and posted several Awareness Bulletins and brochures. The annual financial statement audit was completed and resulted in a clean opinion, with one significant deficiency. The annual FISMA audit was completed and resulted in eight recommendations.