Q&A
Duration and scope of provider audits
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DSS officials explain the varying durations and scopes of audits conducted on shelter providers.
- Audit duration varies depending on the scope and size of the provider being audited
- Audits typically focus on a particular fiscal year
- From 2022 to 2024, DSS oversaw 186 fiscal audits covering two fiscal years
- These audits tested $350 million worth of invoices
Gale A. Brewer
0:31:36
Also, how long do the audits take?
0:31:38
That's the other question I had.
0:31:39
Well, same issue.
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How long does an audit typically take from provide when you when you audit the providers?
Molly Wasow Park
0:31:46
I'll let my my colleague chime in, but that is something that's gonna vary tremendously depending on the scope of the both the audit itself and, vary tremendously depending on the scope of the both the audit itself and and the provider.
0:31:54
Right?
0:31:55
If we are doing an audit of if our third party contracted auditor is doing or or controller, city or state controller, right,
UNKNOWN
0:32:03
is doing an audit of a particular shelter, that might
Molly Wasow Park
0:32:03
be relatively quick.
0:32:03
Okay.
0:32:04
So audit of a particular shelter, that might be relatively quick.
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If they are doing an audit of a provider with a large footprint, that's gonna take a lot longer.
Bedros Boodanian
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Thank you, chair.
0:32:18
Yes.
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So in terms of our audits, our audit cycles, we try to limit them to a particular year for a fiscal year we're evaluating.
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To further illustrate that, from 2022 to 2024, we perform fiscal audits for 2 fiscal years where the audits we oversaw, there were a 186 of them, and auditors tested $350,000,000 of invoices.
Gale A. Brewer
0:32:46
So you're trying to keep the 186 within that fiscal year is what you're saying?
Bedros Boodanian
0:32:50
That was over a little more than 2 years.
0:32:53
Okay.
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And that was 2 fiscal years.
0:32:55
It was fiscal year 2020 and fiscal year 2021.
