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Top 10 Financial Statement Audit Findings….and then some
Jennifer Blake, Senior Manager
Louise Hanson, Partner
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limitation, legal, accounting, or investment advice. This information is not
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used as a substitute for professional services. If legal, accounting,
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professional should be sought.
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AGENDA
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SNAPSHOT AGENDA
• Internal controls over financial reporting
• Investments
• Loans and allowance for loan losses
• Other real estate owned
• Compensation arrangements
• Other accounting
• Regulatory hot buttons
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INTERNAL CONTROLS
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1. SYSTEM ACCESS AND CONTROLS
• Issues we have seen in practice:
o Too much access
o Template access settings
o Supervisory access
o Terminations
• Thoughts for recommended action
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2. SEGREGATION OF DUTIES
• Issues we have seen in practice:
o Incompatible duties leading to error
o Posting/reconciling
o Access to assets and reconciling
• Thoughts for recommended action
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INVESTMENTS
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3. INVESTMENTS
• Issues we have seen in practice:
o Lack of timely investment valuation
o Incorrect recording of amortization and accretion
o Incomplete consideration of OTTI
• Thoughts for recommended action
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LOANS AND ALLL
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4. LOAN BOARDING
• Issues we have seen in practice:
o Information not input into system correctly Variable versus fixed interest rates
o Lack of functional independent secondary review of loan information input into core system
• Thoughts for recommended action
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5. LOAN FOOTNOTE
• Issues we have seen in practice:
o Information coming from different sources doesn’t reconcile to the general ledger
o Information for loan footnotes not complete
o Lack of controls around support
• Thoughts for recommended action
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6. ALLOWANCE FOR LOAN LOSS CALCULATION
• Issues we have seen in practice:
o Calculation errors (spreadsheet controls)
o Charge-offs input into wrong loan classifications
o Information not flowing properly through the schedules
• Thoughts for recommended action
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7. IMPAIRED LOAN ACCOUNTING
• Issues we have seen in practice:
o Lack of adequate support for value of impaired loans Fair value of loan
Discounted expected future cash flows
Fair value of collateral
o Lack of timely support for fair value
• Thoughts for recommended action
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OTHER REAL ESTATE OWNED
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8. OTHER REAL ESTATE OWNED
• Issues we have seen in practice:
o Lack of adequate support for value of OREO Appraisal
BPO/AVM
o Lack of timely support for fair value
o Incorrect accounting for sales of OREO
o Incorrect account for other OREO related costs
• Thoughts for recommended action
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COMPENSATION ARRANGEMENTS
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9. ACCOUNTING FOR COMPENSATION ARRANGEMENTS
• Issues we have seen in practice:
o Lack of communication with accounting department
o Incorrect accounting for deferred compensation
o Other considerations
• Thoughts for recommended action
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OTHER ACCOUNTING ITEMS
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10. SUSPENSE ACCOUNTS
• Issues we have seen in practice:
o Inadequate monitoring of suspense accounts
o Lack of action taken on reconciling items Issues impacting member accounts
o Lack of accountability
• Thoughts for recommended action
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REGULATORY HOT BUTTONS
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11. THIRD PARTY DUE DILIGENCE
• Finding:
o Lack of due diligence over vendors
o Over reliance on vendor
• Recommended Action:
o Revisit and update policy surrounding vendor selection
o Obtain SSAE 16 reports and monitor vendors’ controls and performance
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12. MEMBER BUSINESS LENDING (MBL)
• Finding: o Violations to regulatory MBL limits
o Lack of MBL policies or inadequate policies
o Underwriting of MBLs despite being undercapitalized
o Failure to monitor MBLs
• Recommended Action: o Monitor limits quarterly
o Review the MBL policies/monitor compliance
o Loan file review and continuous credit reviews
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13. LIQUIDITY
• Finding: o Inadequate liquidity controls
o Poor Asset/Liability Management (“ALM”) programs in place to monitor liquidity positions
o Lack of Leveraging limits
• Recommended Action: o Management monitoring of liquidity positions
o Discussions with management regarding liquidity and interest rate risk
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14. CONCENTRATION RISK/EXCESSIVE GROWTH
• Finding: o Certain loan portfolios growing excessively
o Inadequate controls in place to monitor lending concentrations
o Transfer of underwriting and approval of authority to a third party vendor
• Recommended Action: o Review of loan policies
o Implement monitoring controls to monitor concentrations and third party vendors
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15. FRAUD
• Finding: o Supervisory Committee provided little or no internal
control reviews
o Certain individuals were dominating
o Segregation of duties issues
• Recommended Action: o Investigate repeat findings from External Auditors
and other examiners
o Review segregation of duties
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QUESTIONS?
Jennifer Blake
(509) 777-0173
Louise Hanson
(425) 303-3037