Improvements in Payroll Audit's internal controls - Presented to Council June 28, 2016, the Performance Audit of the Payroll Division was conducted independently by Macias Gini & O'Connell (MGO). They found Payroll Audit's internal control practices, policies, and procedures protect against fraud, waste, and abuse. However, MGO cited concerns related to the City's aging fiscal software, FUND$: difficulty in controlling access rights to the payroll module, and inefficiencies and control weaknesses in the manual, labor-intensive, paper-based process that FUND$ demands.
Results: All ten (10) audit recommendations were implemented or alternatively implemented to the extent possible given deficiencies with the current payroll software, which will be replaced in 2019.
Audits in Progress
Code Enforcement Unit
Does the Code Enforcement Unit have the resources and practices needed to enforce City codes? We are assessing staffing levels, case management data systems, policies and procedures.
Why this audit? We identified workload capacity as an immediate threat to the City's operations and strategic planning in our fiscal year 2018 Audit Plan, and plan additional audits to evaluate the City's ability to provide expected and critical services to the Berkeley community.
Easy Does It
Is Easy Does It, a nonprofit providing emergency services for disabled Berkeley residents, in compliance with City contract requirements and are they using Measure E and Measure B funds as intended by taxpayers?
Why this audit? We added audits of community agencies in our fiscal year 2017 Audit Plan. Easy Does It was selected because it received one of the largest amounts of City funding for community agencies in fiscal year 2017.
City-Issued Credit Card Use
Quarterly Report on Audit Issues and Outstanding Recommendations
Reports on Results from the City Manager scheduled for March Council Meetings
The City Auditor's Report on Results shows how our audits and city staff actions made a difference. Click on the pictures on page two of the four page report to read the full audit reports.
Hear the City Auditor's October 17, 2017 presentation of the report to Council here.
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Thank you for your continued support for our work to help Berkeley deliver services in a more efficient, effective, and equitable way. Please contact me at
[email protected] or at 981-6750 with your questions or comments. I'm always happy to hear from folks who want to get more involved. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Ann-Marie Hogan, City Auditor City of Berkeley Auditor's Office
