Under a program that commenced 30 months ago, the social services department of a large city has been awarding contracts to provide day-care services for children of mothers who attend special training programs to improve their work skills. Each year, the city awards 10 contracts, each for $75,000. The same 10 providers have received contracts in each of the three years. The providers are required to keep records of their costs to perform the contracts, but the contracts do not specify what constitutes an allowable contract cost, nor do they specify any limits on what constitutes reasonable costs. Providers are also required to return any unspent contract funds to the city, but none of the providers returned any unspent contract funds after either completed year. Providers are also required to keep attendance records, but are not required to send attendance reports to the city. The new chief of the social services agency asks you to audit the program, reviewing the procedures of day-care program manager and making whatever visits to the day-care providers that you consider necessary.

Required: Describe eight specific audit procedures, stating why each procedure will help you determine the efficiency and effectiveness of this program. (Remember that you are doing the audit in the middle of the third year of the program.)