Re: PI review of circulars Dawn Wall 27 Oct 2006 13:33 EST
I agree, every year we seem to have to train a new bunch of auditors. They seem to graduate with less and less knowledge. Dawn Wall University of Alaska Daniel S Rademacher wrote: > Hi Linda, > > Did your auditor interview the PI to test their knowledge of A-21? If > yes, then your auditor was wasting time. If no, they are making an > assumption which is a waste of your time. > > Does your auditor know that grants are granted to institutions and not > individuals thus the responsibility for knowledge of, understanding > and applying A-21 is the responsibility of the institution? If yes, > they should know better than to raise this point. If no, they should > know much more than better. > > For the sake of argument if your PI is an A-21 expert does he/she know > about the "consistency" of the expenses across the institution? If > yes, he/she is not doing research because he/she spends all his/her > time in the accounting offices. If no, the he/she is doing what > he/she is paid to do and not using federal funds to support his/her > administrative role policing expenditures. > > If this situation was on my desk I would be discussing the auditors > ability/comments with their supervisor. > > Dan > > > > At 10:29 AM 10/27/2006, Linda Manley wrote: > >> David: I have no clue as to what controls they are referring to. >> Here's one >> of the statements in the management comment: "Equipment grant were not >> reviewed for accordance with the applicable OMB Circular A-21, >> Educational >> Institutions as outlined in the OMB Circular A-133 Compliance >> Supplement." >> If I'm not mistaken, Part B "Allowable Costs/Cost Principles" of the >> A-133 >> Compliance Supplement just refers you to the OMB Circular A-21, which >> incorporates the 4 items I listed before. We just keep going around in >> circles! >> >> We offer training to PI's but it is not mandatory. I'll propose your >> suggestion to the higher powers than me. Thanks for the feeback. >> >> >> ====================================================================== >> Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including >> subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available >> via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") >> ====================================================================== > > > > ====================================================================== > Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including > subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available > via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") > ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================