Report Summary
Peace Officers Standards and Training Board
          
          
          Financial Audit
          For the Three Years Ended June 30, 1993
           
          
            
              | Public Release Date: June 17, 1994 | 
              No. 94-31 | 
            
          
          
          Objectives
          
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              Evaluate Internal Control Structure: Payroll; grants; contracts;
              license fees; and fixed assets.
              
            
 
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              Test Compliance with certain Finance-Related Legal Provisions.
              
            
 
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              Scope Limitation: The documents supporting the grant award
              calculations and payments for fiscal year 1991 were not located.
              We were unable to determine whether the allocation process and
              calculations were made properly.
              
            
 
          
          Conclusions
          We found five areas where the internal control structure needed
          improvement:
          
          
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              The board did not have an effective internal control structure
              and, as a result, maintained unorganized and incomplete financial
              records.
              
            
 
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              The board needs to make grant payments in a timely manner.
              
            
 
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              Controls over license fee receipts need improvement.
              
            
 
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              The board needs to improve monitoring contract payments.
              
            
 
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              The board needs to control fixed assets.
              
            
 
          
          We reported on two areas where the board had not complied with
          finance-related legal provisions:
          
          
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              The board overpaid one local unit of government when it calculated
              the education reimbursement grant payments.
              
            
 
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              Partial contract payments for five contracts exceeded the contract
              terms.
              
            
 
          
          
            Pursuant to Minn. Stat. Section 3.975, this report is being referred
            to the Attorney General for resolution.