Jackie Bernal
Manager, BDO
Jackie is a manager in BDO’s Industry Specialty Services Group, focused on providing risk and compliance advisory services to federally funded organizations. She has nearly a decade of experience advising clients on matters of regulatory compliance, cost allowability, and risk management and has helped many of her clients prepare for and/or respond to Single Audits and audit requests.
My Sessions
Session 8: Exploring Common Audit Findings and Ways to Mitigate Audit Risk >>
Each year, tens of thousands of Single Audits are submitted to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse, representing the review of over $1 trillion in federal expenditures. Year after year, these audits reveal the same type of challenges leading to questioned costs or internal control concerns for federal funding recipients. This session will explore the common areas of audit findings and what organizations can do to mitigate the risk of such findings. Learning Objectives: Explore commonly questioned costs from Single Audit and OIG cost reviews Discuss control challenges often cited in audit results Leverage learnings from audit findings to enhance operations and oversight of federal funds