November 17, 2011 – 6:00 am
Washington state financial management officials plan to post best practices and tools online to help its state agencies encourage grantee compliance and reduce grantee internal control weaknesses.
September 7, 2011 – 6:00 am
Although some of our blog posts may not actually spur anyone to respond, here’s a $2 million topic ripe for controversy that just begs for comments, which actually could prove quite useful for federal decisionmakers.
By Jerry Ashworth
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Posted in Compliance/Reporting, Grants Management, Improper Payments, OMB Circulars and Regulations, Single Audits, State and Local Governments
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Also tagged $2 million, $500, 000, AICPA, audit threshold, Circular A-133, improper payments, local governments, NASACT
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August 24, 2011 – 6:00 am
Here she is! The second winner of our new grants publications giveaway was Colleen Campbell, statewide single audit coordinator for the Alaska Department of Administration, Division of Finance. I got in touch with her recently to find out more about…
By Jerry Ashworth
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Posted in Grants Management, Monitoring/Subrecipients/Subawards, OMB Circulars and Regulations, Recovery Act/ARRA/Stimulus, Single Audits
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Also tagged AICPA, Alaska, ARRA, audit, economy, FFATA, Government Auditing Standards, grants, state, Statement on Auditing Standards, subrecipient monitoring
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While most of the country was attending parades, eating hot dogs and watching fireworks on July 4th, I spent my day doing one thing — painting. Now because this blog deals with grants, I’m going attempt to compare my painting…
The FY 2011 Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement is out! It was just posted on the Office of Budget and Management’s website this afternoon. You can access it by clicking here (if you’re inside this specific blog post) or by copying…
Welcome to the June edition of the FY 2011 Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement watch! There’s still no news or hint of news from the Office of Budget and Management on an updated ETA. Going back into our files, I was…
Sorry, Charlie. With the hours in May waning, it doesn’t look like the new Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement will be released by the Office of Budget and Management this month. Cross your fingers that we’ll see it in June!
The Office of Management and Budget had better release the FY 2011 Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement soon; we’re running out of pictures of snails! Only one more workday left for OMB to get the supplement released this month. Where’s Agent…
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the Office of Management and Budget still hasn’t released the FY 2011 Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement. But in better news, I’ve been hearing about some terrific grants management job opportunities lately,…
Still no FY 2011 Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement from the Office of Management and Budget. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing interesting going on! Like a woodchuck after a spring rain, the “social impact bonds” funding option that we discussed…