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Accounts Payable Advisory No. 1
… TCard, and NET-Card Payments to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Filling the Invoice Number Field on the Voucher: In order … card accounts, agencies must enter their 16 digit billing account number followed by the two-digit billing month and … field. OSC will return JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. payments with invoice numbers containing spaces, letters or …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/advisories/accounts-payable-advisory/1-complex-entity-jpmorgan-chase-bank-naAccounts Payable Advisory No. 37
… credit card charges within 30 days of the payment of the Citibank bill (see the Guide to Financial Operations (GFO), …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/advisories/accounts-payable-advisory/37-reconciliation-credit-card-transactionsState Comptroller DiNapoli Releases State Audits and Examinations
… Services Corporation: Tuition Assistance Program, Fordham University (2016-T-2) Auditors determined that Fordham was … and providing $125.3 million in combined discounts for a hospital and supermarket. NYSIF priced the premiums without …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2017/02/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-state-audits-and-examinationsState Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Audits
… by SED to provide preschool Special Education Itinerant Teacher (SEIT) services to children with disabilities who are …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/06/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-audits-0State Agencies Bulletin No. 938
… (BDA) through the new automated process as indicated in the Budget Bulletin. Upon approval by DOB, NYSTEP will … OSC will not have access to view a BDA prior to approval in NYSTEP. OSC has created the new Reason Code BDA to be used … a BDA. The reason codes of transactions already approved in PayServ that require BDA approval should not be changed. …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-agencies/938-new-reason-code-transactions-requiring-budget-directors-approval-bdaOpinion 91-8
… Const, art VIII, §2; Van Derzee v City of Long Beach , 265 App Div 1059, 39 NYS2d 401). Therefore, we believe that …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-8State Comptroller DiNapoli Statement on New York City's Fiscal Year 2026 Executive Budget
… New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli released the following statement on New York City's Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Executive Budget: “New York City’s proposed budget … New York State Comptroller Thomas P DiNapoli released the following statement on New York Citys Fiscal Year FY 2026 Executive Budget …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2025/05/state-comptroller-dinapoli-statement-new-york-citys-fiscal-year-2026-executive-budgetNew York City School-Based Health Centers – Security and Controls Over Medications and Related Supplies (Follow-Up)
… Ten of the 11 SBHCs sampled had shortages in various medication categories (907 out of 2,298.25 units expected), … student-supplied medications, they did not record student medication transactions (e.g., medications received from or …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2017/03/23/new-york-city-school-based-health-centers-security-and-controls-over-medications-andManagement of General School Funds (Follow-Up)
… nine recommendations included in our initial audit report, John F. Kennedy Educational Campus: Management of General … York City Department of Education (DoE) did not provide John F. Kennedy Educational Campus staff with adequate … management control over GSF accounts. Key Finding DoE and John F. Kennedy officials have made progress in addressing …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2014/09/30/management-general-school-funds-followTown of Berne – Board Oversight (2021M-77)
… State Town Law (Town Law) by authorizing the Supervisor to pay all expenditures without prior audit. The Board did not: Request or receive adequate monthly reports from the Supervisor. For example, the Board did not request or receive monthly cash reports detailing money received and disbursed, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/town/2021/09/17/town-berne-board-oversight-2021m-77Sharon Springs Central School District – Fund Balance Management (2022M-100)
… balance. Key Findings The Board and District officials did not effectively manage fund balance, and need to improve … appropriations and appropriating fund balance that is not needed to finance operations is, in effect, a reservation of fund balance that is not provided for by statute and circumvents the statutory …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2022/09/30/sharon-springs-central-school-district-fund-balance-management-2022m-100Central Square Central School District – Fund Balance (2022M-196)
… maintained surplus fund balance within the statutory limit and maintained reserve funds at reasonable levels. Key … officials reduced the transparency of District finances and kept $8 million from productive use. Although the … overstated accrued liabilities, nonspendable fund balance and encumbrances, which resulted in surplus fund balance …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2023/03/10/central-square-central-school-district-fund-balance-2022m-196Stamford Central School District – Fund Balance Management (2022M-199)
… fund balance. As a result, they were not transparent with taxpayers, and the District levied more taxes than needed to … from the 2019-20 through 2021-22 fiscal years by an average of $1.4 million (14 percent) and planned to use … Four of the District’s 11 reserves were not reasonably funded, or used to pay related expenditures, during the last …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2023/04/14/stamford-central-school-district-fund-balance-management-2022m-199Thousand Islands Central School District – Financial Management (2022M-201)
… report – pdf] Audit Objective Determine whether the Thousand Islands Central School District (District) Board of … audit school district Thousand Islands …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2023/06/09/thousand-islands-central-school-district-financial-management-2022m-201Jericho Union Free School District – Acceptable Use Policy (2022M-194)
… use. District officials did not periodically review web histories to determine whether any employee’s web browsing was inappropriate. Key Recommendations Ensure …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2023/07/21/jericho-union-free-school-district-acceptable-use-policy-2022m-194Town of Chateaugay - Real Property Tax Exemption Administration (2018M-200)
… select real property tax exemptions. Key Findings Of the 224 granted exemptions that we reviewed totaling approximately $6.2 million of assessed value, 136 exemptions (61 percent), valued at … $3.8 million in assessed value, lacked one or more pieces of supporting documentation to verify their eligibility …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/town/2019/05/17/town-chateaugay-real-property-tax-exemption-administration-2018m-200Safe Schools Against Violence in Education (SAVE) Act - Safety Plans - 2019-MS-1
… emergency response plans in compliance with the New York State Safe Schools Against Violence in Education … districts two charter schools were in compliance with the New York State Safe Schools Against Violence in Education …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/charter-school/2019/07/25/safe-schools-against-violence-education-save-act-safety-plans-2019-ms-1Town of Hurley – Transfer Station Collections (2024M-132)
… without detection. For example: The amount of municipal waste collected, as recorded by the transfer … invoiced by the hauling company, which equates to the Town of Hurley (Town) collecting approximately $51,800 less in … collection procedures that did not address segregation of incompatible duties with respect to safeguarding …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/town/2025/04/11/town-hurley-transfer-station-collections-2024m-132Town of Perth – Supervisor’s Records and Reports (2024M-149)
… financial operations. Key Findings The Supervisor did not maintain complete, accurate and timely accounting records … the Town’s financial operations. The Supervisor also did not: Prepare any monthly bank reconciliations during our audit period, and the adjusted bank balances did not agree with the cash balance from the accounting records. …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/town/2025/04/25/town-perth-supervisors-records-and-reports-2024m-149Town of Alden – Town Clerk/Tax Collector (2024M-106)
… accumulated unremitted funds totaling $138,050 in the tax collection bank accounts. The funds should have been … The Clerk also did not: Always date stamp real property tax receipts – 66 percent of Town and County and 47 percent of school real property tax receipts were not date stamped when they were received. …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/town/2025/05/30/town-alden-town-clerktax-collector-2024m-106