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Taking federal money comes with strings, and the strings are written down. The Uniform Guidance sets the rules for how federal awards may be spent, documented, and reported, and your Single Audit checks whether you followed them.
Most compliance findings are honest mistakes. A well-run organization spends real program dollars in a way that misses a rule it did not know applied, and the gap surfaces at audit time. Building the rule into day-to-day operations is what keeps it off the finding list.
The Uniform Guidance (2 CFR Part 200) covers three areas:
post-award administration.
cost principles.
the audit.
Together they govern how you spend, track, document, and report federal awards.
Auditors do not invent what to test. For each major program, the OMB Compliance Supplement identifies the compliance requirements that apply. The recurring ones are:
A cost on a federal award has to clear three tests (2 CFR 200.403):
A prudent person would have spent it.
It benefits the federal program it is charged to.
There is support behind it.
If you have no negotiated indirect cost rate, you can use the de minimis rate, now up to 15 percent. Getting costs into the right buckets, with support behind them, is where day-to-day compliance is won or lost.
Buying with federal dollars means meeting the federal procurement rules (2 CFR 200.318):
Your own purchasing policy may be looser, but on federal dollars the federal standard governs.
Pass federal money through to another organization and the responsibility for how they spend it stays with you (2 CFR 200.332). You have to:
You stay responsible even after the money moves on.
Everything on this page is what a Single Audit tests. Your SEFA captures the spending, and the A-133 audit requirements page covers the audit that checks it. Strong year-round compliance is what makes that audit short and finding-free.
We build and run the systems that keep you compliant all year, and we handle the Single Audit when it comes:
Getting costs into the right buckets, with support behind them.
Purchasing rules that satisfy the federal standard, which is stricter than most internal policies.
Federal deadlines tracked so nothing is filed late.
Verification and oversight for every dollar you pass through.
Want a pre-audit check first? That is our audit readiness assessment. Need the Single Audit itself? We do that too.
Built-in compliance is what keeps a Single Audit short. A rule found at audit time can become questioned costs, a finding, and funds you have to pay back. The organizations that move through a Single Audit cleanly run the rules all year.
There is no flat price. The work scales with your federal footprint and how much you want us to build versus review. The main drivers are:
Tell us what you run and how you handle it today, and we will give you a fixed quote before you commit to anything.
Single Audits and grant-compliance work we have delivered, and what clients said about how it went.
Tell us which federal programs you run and how you handle costs, procurement, and subrecipients today, and we will show you where the gaps are. Confidential, handled by a CPA firm, not a call center.
