October 15, 2007

 

Legislative Audit Commission

622 Stratton Office Building

Springfield, IL  62706

 

Dear Members:

 

            In accordance with section 3-15 of the Illinois State Auditing Act (30 ILCS 5/3-15), I hereby submit the report on the operations of the Office of the Auditor General for the lapse period of Fiscal Year 2007 ending August 31, 2007 and the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2008 ending September 30, 2007.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FISCAL MATTERS

 

 

                                              FY 2007 – FINAL

 

                                             Appropriation                       Expended                           Balance

 

Personal Services                        $   4,537,123                      $  4,537,073                     $              50

State Retirement                                 523,565                            523,559                                       6

Social Security                                    340,300                            339,023                                 1,277

Contractual Services                           680,112                            674,524                                 5,588

Travel                                                  73,000                              68,987                                 4,013

Commodities                                        11,640                               6,896                                 4,744

Printing                                                25,000                              24,100                                   900

Equipment                                          124,360                            123,509                                   851

EDP                                                  116,000                            115,789                                   211

Telecommunications                             56,000                              52,406                                 3,594

Oper. of Auto. Equip.                             3,000                               2,172                                   828

Audits/Studies/Invest.*                   18,109,995                         16,406,900                                                                                               1,703,095

 

TOTAL                                   $24,600.095                    $22,874,938                       $1,725,157

 

*Audit Expense Fund

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FISCAL  MATTERS

 

 

                                    FY 2008 – FIRST QUARTER

 

                                          Appropriation         Expended             Obligated              Balance

 

Personal Services                     $   4,500,000        $  1,228,157        $                  0           $  3,271,843            

State Retirement                              745,300              203,629                           0                 541,671

Social Security                                 344,300                93,489                           0                 250,811

Contractual Services                        736,200              179,574                  342,043                 214,583

Travel                                               80,000                  7,448                           0                   72,552

Commodities                                     16,640                    612                           0                   16,028

Printing                                             25,000                  7,685                           0                   17,315

Equipment                                         98,360                  5,673                           0                   92,687

EDP                                                 90,000                  8,203                     4,550                   77,247

Telecommunications                          75,000                  4,569                           0                  70,431

Oper. of Auto. Equip.                          6,000                    294                           0                    5,706

Audits/Studies/Invest.*                17,513,900              623,099              11,588,017              5,302,784

 

TOTAL                                $24,230,700       $ 2,362,432         $11,934,610          $9,933,658

 

*Audit Expense Fund

 

 

 

 

 

PERSONNEL

 

 

                                                           

PERSONNEL

 

                                07-01-07     Appointments      Separations      Transfers        09-30-07

 

Springfield                  77                      3                           2                     0                    78

Chicago                       10                      2                           3                     0                    09

 

TOTAL                       87                      5                           5                     0                    87

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTRACTS

 

            During the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2008 the Office of the Auditor General entered

into one hundred three financial/compliance audit contracts, forty four performance audit contracts, ten  information systems audit contracts and eighteen administrative contracts.

 

 

 

 

TRAINING

 

During the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2008, OAG-sponsored training included: 

§         Compliance Audit Issues Update: July 07

§         Procurement Testing

§         Illinois OAG Audit Policies and Procedures

§         Effective Listening Skills

§         Audit Interviewing

§         2007 Governmental Accounting and Auditing Update DVD

§         Compliance Audit Issues Update: August 07

§         Internal Controls

§         Performance Audit Roundtable: September 2007

 

Additional external-sponsored training in which OAG staff participated included:

§         Performance Management and Reporting

§         2007 NASACT Annual Conference

§         NASACT 2007 Training Directors Forum

§         Illinois Digital Government Summit

§         The Reporting Landscape: An Overview of Payroll Issues at Year End

§         2007 NSAA IT Workshop & Conference

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PERFORMANCE AUDITS

 

 

                                                PERFORMANCE AUDITS

                                                IN PROGRESS

 

 

                                              AUDITS

         ESTIMATED

RELEASE DATE

 

·         Audit of Pilsen-Little Village Community Mental Health Center, Inc. (House Resolution No. 1146) 

 

·         Study of Duplicate Programs (LAC No. 130)

 

·         Medicaid and Group Health Insurance Programs’ Compliance with the Prompt Payment Act and Department of Healthcare and Family Services’ Processing of Vendor Bills (LAC Nos. 136 and 137)