For Member Agencies
Fiscal monitoring and single-audit readiness checklist
Documentation standards, allowability review and corrective-action tracking.
Checklist
Excel workbook
Compliance
Fiscal
Updated November 27, 2025Resource detail
Federal awards bring the Uniform Guidance and, above the single-audit threshold, an annual single audit. This checklist keeps an agency audit-ready throughout the year.
Monthly
- Bank and grant drawdown reconciliations completed and reviewed
- Cost allocation applied per the approved plan, with documentation
- Time and effort records signed for staff split across awards
- Budget-to-actual reviewed by programme and by award
Quarterly
- Procurement files reviewed against thresholds and competition requirements
- Subrecipient monitoring completed and documented
- Board financial reporting with variance explanations
- Property, inventory and equipment records updated
Annually
- Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards prepared and reconciled
- Policies reviewed and re-approved by the board
- Prior-year audit findings closed with evidence
- Indirect-cost rate or de minimis election documented
Official sources and further reading
Source: 2 CFR Part 200 (Uniform Guidance) and CSBG monitoring requirements.
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