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Internal audit recommends tighter procurement-card controls, mandatory justifications in Workday
Summary
Buncombe County internal audit presented two audits — a special project and a procurement-card audit — and recommended added review layers, clearer coding for meeting food, risk-based sampling, more frequent training, clarified conflict-of-interest rules and mandatory justification fields in Workday.
Rob Hartman of Buncombe County's internal audit office told commissioners the office completed a special project and a dedicated procurement-card audit and identified measures intended to strengthen controls over procurement-card (P-card) use.
Hartman said four recommendations came from the special project, including identification of P-card review chains that currently allow only one reviewer. "We're asking finance to go in, identify those, and add an extra layer of review to really make sure that we have a good separation of duties," Hartman said.
The audit found routine miscoding of meeting food as office supplies. Hartman said budget staff added new account codes so food for meetings can be coded correctly and noted that change took effect with…
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