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While costs in general are expected to increase over time due to inflation, there were other factors that put downward pressure on the Postal Service’s transportation costs. Namely, the overall decline in mail volume and the reduction in First-Class Mail service standards. This led us to wonder how much costs should have been expected to change in response to two things: (1) the overall change in mail volume, including the decline in letters and flats and the increase in parcels; and (2) the overall change in transportation-related input costs, including fuel and driver wages. The OIG found that almost 40 percent of the increase in transportation costs over the last ten years cannot be explained by these two factors alone.

The Office of National Drug Control Policy’s (ONDCP) Circular, Accounting of Drug Control Funding and Performance Summary, requires each National Drug Control Program agency to submit to the ONDCP Director a detailed accounting of all funds expended for National Drug Control Program activities during the previous fiscal year. Williams, Adley & Company –DC, LLP (Williams Adley), under contract with the Department of Homeland Security OIG, issued an Independent Accountant’s Report on U.S. Coast Guard’s (Coast Guard) Detailed Accounting Submission. Coast Guard management prepared the Table of FY 2018 Drug Control Obligations and related disclosures in accordance with requirements of ONDCP Circular, Accounting of Drug Control Funding and Performance Summary, dated May 8, 2018 (the Circular). Based on its review, nothing came to Williams Adley’s attention that caused it to believe that the Coast Guard’s FY 2018 Detailed Accounting Submission is not presented in conformity with the criteria in the Circular. Williams Adley did not make any recommendations as a result of its review.

We conducted a limited scope audit of the Ohio Arts Council (OAC) for the period of July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2018. Limited scope audits involve a limited review of financial and non-financial information of NEA award recipients to ensure validity and accuracy of reported information, and compliance with Federal requirements. Our limited scope audit concluded that the OAC generally did not comply with the financial management system and recordkeeping requirements established by the OMB and NEA. Following is a summary of our findings: the OAC included unallowable costs on the Federal Financial Report (FFR) for award No. 15-6100-2037; the OAC included unsupported costs on the FFRs for award Nos. 15-6100-2037 and 16-6100-2044; the OAC included costs incurred outside the period of performance on the FFRs for award Nos. 15-6100-2037 and 16-6100-2044; the OAC did not provide accurate, current, and complete disclosure of the financial results of award Nos. 15-6100-2037 and 16-6100-2044; the OAC did not provide notice of Federal award participation to subrecipients of awards used to meet the Federal cost share/match; and the OAC generally did not administer NEA awards in compliance with NEA and Federal regulations.

Weill Cornell Medicine awarded subawards and monitored subaward recipients in compliance with National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant polices and Federal regulations. In addition, as both a prime recipient and a subrecipient of NIH funds, Weill Cornell claimed allowable expenditures on subawards it both awarded and received. Accordingly, this report contains no recommendations.

We audited selected general and application controls over the Federal Housing Administration’s Computerized Homes Underwriting Management System as part of the internal control assessments required for the fiscal year 2018 financial statement audit under the Chief Financial Officer’s Act of 1990.  Our objective was to review the effectiveness of controls for compliance with HUD information technology policies and Federal information system security and financial management requirements.The OIG has determined that the contents of this audit report would not be appropriate for public disclosure and has therefore limited its distribution to those officials listed on the report distribution list.