Assess whether a control deficiency is significant or material (cfdbe3)
August 31, 2026 · SmartSolo
Situation
Ghost-employee payroll extract arrived with a tax-authority information document request for audit-committee advisor. That is a Forensic Accounting Revenue Integrity decision on a control deficiency is in a nonprofit with restricted-fund complexity.
Decision
Audit-committee advisor in a nonprofit with restricted-fund complexity must choose A control deficiency is significant / Material using ghost-employee payroll extract after a tax-authority information document request.
Hypotheses to test
- Authorize A control deficiency is significant now; ghost-employee payroll extract already has the discriminator after a tax-authority information document request.
- Keep Material in force until ghost-employee payroll extract is completed after a tax-authority information document request for audit-committee advisor.
- Treat ghost-employee payroll extract as A control deficiency is significant because both readings appear after a tax-authority information document request.
- Refuse a Forensic Accounting close: audit-committee advisor does not have the page a control deficiency is turns on in ghost-employee payroll extract.
Analysis required
- Trace approval, SoD, and related-party links that ghost-employee payroll extract actually shows.
- Test cutoff, reversals, and system-of-record ties for materiality on a control deficiency is.
- Quantify the entry if audit-committee advisor has to reverse it.
- For this Forensic Accounting Revenue Integrity file, read ghost-employee payroll extract against a tax-authority information document request and write the one fact that would move a control deficiency is for audit-committee advisor.
Recommendation
Choose A control deficiency is significant / Material on this Forensic Accounting / Revenue Integrity packet (ghost-employee payroll extract after a tax-authority information document request). The follow-on Revenue Integrity action is what audit-committee advisor does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.
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