Open Recommendations

Assess resource capabilities and needs, followed by the recruitment, training, development, and retention of personnel possessing pertinent grant management expertise, in order to attain operational, reporting, and compliance objectives. (New)

Establish, implement, and document policies and procedures that define the roles and responsibilities of AmeriCorps and its service provider relating to Advances from Others, including an end-to-end business processes narrative with flowcharts. (New)

Monitor outstanding balances resulting from financial system configuration issues and fix the issues for future transactions to be interfaced into the shared service provider’s financial management system. (Modified Repeat)

Establish, implement, and document policies and procedures that define the roles and responsibilities of AmeriCorps and its service provider relating to Other Liabilities, including an end-to-end business processes narrative with flowcharts. (New)

Establish and implement periodic training requirements to enhance knowledge of Federal capitalization standards and AmeriCorps capitalization policy for internal use software. (Modified Repeat)

Develop and implement a project management tool to track and monitor all project costs associated with the software in development including direct and indirect cost (e.g., labor). (New)

Design and implement control activities to address 8 of the 17 Government Accountability Office Green Book framework principles that were not sufficiently designed during its FY 2023 Entity Level Control assessment. (New)

Identify resource capabilities and needs, then recruit, train, develop, and retain financial leaders and personnel with relevant Federal financial management capabilities to achieve operations, reporting, and compliance objectives, complete and document performance evaluations in a readily accessible form, and hold individuals accountable for related control responsibilities. (Modified Repeat)

Ensure its fraud risk management process includes external risk factors such as grantee and subgrantee recipients in its standard operating procedures for the agency risk profile. This process should include: (New)

A scheduled risk assessment, mitigation plan, and monitoring and reporting (e.g., relating to grantee and subgrantee recipients);

An integration of the fraud risk components for known, suspected, and alleged fraud risks;

Documentation on how the fraud risk components integrate;

How the risk scoring is conducted and applied;

The use of the results of monitoring, evaluation, audits, and investigations to improve fraud prevention, detection, and response; and

Guidance for adequate documentation on the risk determination reviews to match risk ratings or detect errors within the risk assessment.

Provide internal training that addresses:

Management’s overall responsibility for establishing internal controls to manage the risk of fraud, and the related impact on the financial statements; and

The connection between potential and known fraud by the grantee and subgrantee recipients and the impact that fraud may have on the underlying financial data being provided by the recipients and ultimately used for the preparation of information reported in the financial statements.

Establish policies and procedures on financial reporting in compliance with standards and guidance (i.e., U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-136, and the U.S. Standard General Ledger), which should include an end-to-end business process and flowcharts. (New)

Develop and implement standard operating procedures to ensure the applicable line items in the trust statement of bugetary resources are properly reconciled to the SF 132, Apportionment and Reapportionment Schedule, and differences are properly documented, explained, and available upon request. (New)

Complete a comprehensive fluctuation analysis for its trust financial statements that is supported and detailed enough to allow management to detect accounting errors or evaluate the reasonableness of balances. (Modified Repeat)

Develop and implement standard operating procedures for a comprehensive fluctuation analysis to ensure the fluctuation analysis is properly reviewed, approved, and validated in a timely manner by appropriate AmeriCorps resources and account balances are accurate as of and through the reporting period. (Modified Repeat)

Establish, implement, and document policies and procedures that outline the roles and responsibilities of AmeriCorps and its service provider, such as an end-to-end business processes narrative with flowcharts related to journal entries activity. (New)

Monitor outstanding balances resulting from financial system configuration issues and fix the issues for future transactions to be interfaced into the shared service provider’s financial management system, Oracle. (Modified Repeat)

The under secretary for health conduct the following actions coordinate with the executive director of the Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Service and officials from the Veterans Health Administration’s Procurement and Logistics Office and the VA Office of Acquisition, Logistics, and Construction to develop and implement a sourcing strategy, such as national contracts or a pricing catalog across all contracts by vendor for eyeglasses prescribed by a VA provider.