REPORT DIGEST

 

CHICAGO TECHNOLOGY PARK CORPORATION

 

FINANCIAL AUDIT AND COMPLIANCE EXAMINATION

 

For the Year Ended:

June 30, 2006

 

Summary of Findings:

 

Total this audit                        2

Total last audit                        0

Repeated from last audit         0

 

Release Date:

March 22, 2007 

State of Illinois

Office of the Auditor General

WILLIAM G. HOLLAND

AUDITOR GENERAL

 

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SYNOPSIS

 

 

 

¨     Financial Status Reports were inaccurate and not filed timely.

 

¨    The Agency had inadequate documentation for federal  

               program cost sharing totaling $41,386.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      {Expenditures and Activity Measures are summarized on the reverse page.}

 


CHICAGO TECHNOLOGY PARK CORPORATION

FINANCIAL AUDIT AND COMPLIANCE EXAMINATION

For the Year Ended June 30, 2006

 

 

STATEMENT OF REVENUES, EXPENSES, AND CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

 

FY 2006*

OPERATING REVENUES

Federal Grants and Contracts

     State Grants and Contracts

     Other Revenue

            Total Operating Revenues

 OPERATING EXPENSES

     Grant Program Activities

     Depreciation

            Total Operating Expenses

 

     OPERATING (LOSS) INCOME

NONOPERATING REVENUES (EXPENSES)

    Interest Income

 

      CHANGE IN NET ASSETS (DEFICIT) .

 

$1,152,353

     175,000

     250,718

$1,578,071

 

$1,097,996

        2,754

$1,100,750

 

$   477,321

 

$          306

 

$    477,627

 

STATEMENT OF NET ASSETS

 

          FY 2006*

ASSETS

Cash and Cash Equivalents........................

 

$    82,280

      Accounts Payable......................................

Due from other State Agencies...................

Other Assets.............................................

Capital Assets (net)

Total Assets....................................

LIABILITIES

Accounts Payable......................................

Wages and benefits payable.......................

Accrued Vacation and Sick Time Payable

Total Liabilities:...............................

NET ASSETS

        Restricted for grant activities

        Invested in Capital Assets (net)

                Total Net Assets

 

       TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

*FY 2005 Financial Statements used a different basis of accounting

  and are not comparable to FY 2006.

531,181

94

554,531

         8,251

$1,176,337

 

$   540,884

2,559

       3,518

$   546,961

 

$   621,125

       8,251

   629,376

 

$1,176,337

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

     During Audit Period:  Samuel Pruett

     Current:  Samuel Pruett.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Status Reports filed by the Agency for Fiscal Year 2006 were late

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supporting documentation for $41,386 in charges could not be provided

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS

 

FINANCIAL STATUS REPORTS INACCURATE AND NOT FILED TIMELY

 

            The Chicago Technology Park Corporation filed an inaccurate financial status report with the U.S. Department of Labor.  In addition, the Agency did not file its Financial Status Reports (SF 269) in a timely manner.

 

            Exceptions noted included the following:

 

·        The Financial Status Report filed by the Agency for the fourth quarter of Fiscal Year 2006 did not reconcile to the Agency’s accounting records.

 

·        Three of the four Financial Status Reports filed by the Agency for Fiscal Year 2006 were filed between one to 58 days late. (Finding 1, page 15)

 

            We recommended the Agency improve procedures to ensure that accurate Financial Status Reports are filed timely and that the Agency correct the inaccurate report. 

 

Chicago Technology Park officials agreed with the finding and stated they will take adequate steps to improve controls over and timeliness of its financial reporting.

 

INADEQUATE DOCUMENTATION FOR FEDERAL PROGRAM COST SHARING

 

            The Chicago Technology Park Corporation could not provide supporting documentation for certain expenditures recorded as matching expenditures to their federal program.

 

            The Chicago Technology Park Corporation was unable to provide documentation for certain charges totaling $41,386 that were recorded as part of the Agency’s cost sharing for this federal program.  Failure to maintain proper documentation of amounts claimed for matching results in a lack of proper accountability, a possible refunding of Federal funds to the appropriate Federal Agency, and may jeopardize future Federal funding.  (Finding 2, page 16)

 

            We recommended the Agency improve controls to ensure that appropriate documentation is maintained for all amounts claimed as matching. 

 

Chicago Technology Park Corporation officials agreed with our finding and stated that they will take adequate steps to improve controls over accounting records.

AUDITORS’ OPINION

 

Our auditors stated that the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the governmental activities and each major fund of the Chicago Technology Park Corporation as of June 30, 2006, and the respective changes in financial position thereof for the year then ended.

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                   

             WILLIAM G. HOLLAND, Auditor General

 

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SPECIAL ASSISTANT AUDITORS

 

           Our special assistant auditors on this audit were Nykiel, Carlin & Co., LTD.