A finding that appears in two consecutive legislative-audit reports is no longer an audit problem; it is a management problem the auditor has documented twice. We diagnose why the last corrective action didn't hold, redesign the control and the procedure around it, train the people who run it, and track the closeout evidence until the finding is gone. Fixed scope, fixed price, and we are not your auditor, so there is no independence conflict.
The Office of Legislative Audits reported that roughly 34 percent of the findings in its fiscal-compliance audits were repeats of findings from the prior audit, up from about 27 percent. Some agencies carry findings that have reappeared in three or more consecutive reports.
The Governor directed agencies to resolve outstanding audit findings and backed the directive with dedicated funding, with the Department of Budget and Management coordinating. Agencies are now being asked to show closeout progress, not just corrective-action plans.
OLA returns on a roughly three-to-four-year cycle and re-tests every prior finding. A corrective action that exists on paper but not in practice becomes a repeat finding with a longer history and more attention from the Joint Audit and Evaluation Committee.
Single-audit findings for grant recipients follow the same pattern: the federal awarding agency and the next auditor both start from last year's schedule of findings, and a repeat finding is flagged as such.
If a finding has been open through more than one report, most of these will be hard to answer with a document. That is the gap a closeout engagement fills.
Every engagement letter states this division. Ulyx is not the auditor and does not perform attestation work, which is exactly why an audit firm can refer the remediation to us without an independence problem.
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Each package is a fixed-price engagement with a written scope. All three fall within Maryland's small-procurement limit, so a state agency can engage us under simplified procedures, and our Certified Small Business and VSBE status applies to the award. Local governments and grant recipients are quoted on the same basis.
For an agency that wants to know why a finding keeps coming back before it commits to a fix.
Starting price covers up to four related findings in one agency or unit, about 45–55 hours. The Diagnostic fee is credited toward a Closeout engagement that starts within 60 days.
Everything in the Diagnostic, plus the redesign, the training, and the evidence.
Starting price assumes up to six related findings in one agency or unit, about 180–220 hours, with system changes made by your IT staff or vendor.
For an agency with findings across several units, or one preparing for its next OLA cycle.
Starting price covers about 420–500 hours across up to three units. Larger agencies are quoted after the discovery call.
Founding-client terms: our first closeout clients receive reduced pricing in exchange for a reference and permission to describe the engagement. Ask about it on the discovery call.
No. Ulyx Advisory does not perform audits or attestation engagements, and we do not opine on your financial statements or controls. We design and implement the fixes. That separation is what allows your external auditor, or the CPA firm that found the problem, to refer remediation work to us without compromising their independence.
Each package on this page is priced within Maryland's small-procurement limit, which allows an agency to use simplified procurement procedures. Ulyx is a Maryland Certified Small Business and a certified VSBE, so the award also counts toward the agency's small-business and veteran-owned goals. Your procurement office makes the final determination on the method.
Yes, at your direction. In most engagements we coordinate with the audit firm on what evidence they will expect, so the control we build is one they can test, and we stay out of their attestation work.
We separate what the system does from what people do around it. Many repeat findings are operating failures, not system limits, and can be closed with a compensating control, a procedure, and evidence. Where a system change is required, we specify it and your IT staff or vendor makes the change.
Yes. The same approach closes single-audit findings, county-auditor findings, and findings from a funder's monitoring visit. Pricing is on the same basis; the procurement method follows your own rules.
No. Ulyx Advisory provides operational, non-legal governance and internal-control consulting. Any legal determination stays with your counsel, and the official response to the auditor is yours.
This page is general information about audit remediation for Maryland public-sector organizations, not legal advice. Audit statistics are drawn from published Office of Legislative Audits summaries and may change as new reports issue. Ulyx Advisory provides non-legal consulting and does not perform audit or attestation services.
A 30-minute discovery call is enough to tell whether a Diagnostic or a full Closeout fits, what your fixed price would be, and how to time the work against your next audit.
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