41.200—Audit requirements.
(a) Audit required.
Non-Federal entities that expend $500,000 or more in a year in Federal awards shall have a single or program-specific audit conducted for that year in accordance with the provisions of this part. Guidance on determining Federal awards expended is provided in § 41.205.
(b) Single audit.
Non-Federal entities that expend $500,000 or more in a year in Federal awards shall have a single audit conducted in accordance with § 41.500 except when they elect to have a program-specific audit conducted in accordance with paragraph (c) of this section.
(c) Program-specific audit election.
When an auditee expends Federal awards under only one Federal program (excluding R&D) and the Federal program's laws, regulations, or grant agreements do not require a financial statement audit of the auditee, the auditee may elect to have a program-specific audit conducted in accordance with § 41.235. A program-specific audit may not be elected for R&D unless all of the Federal awards expended were received from the same Federal agency, or the same Federal agency and the same pass-through entity, and that Federal agency, or pass-through entity in the case of a subrecipient, approves in advance a program-specific audit.
(d) Exemption when Federal awards expended are less than $500,000.
Non-Federal entities that expend less than $500,000 a year in Federal awards are exempt from Federal audit requirements for that year, except as noted in § 41.215(a), but records must be available for review or audit by appropriate officials of the Federal agency, pass-through entity, and General Accounting Office (GAO).
(e) Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC).
Management of an auditee that owns or operates a FFRDC may elect to treat the FFRDC as a separate entity for purposes of this part.
(Authority: Pub. L. 104-156; 110 Stat. 1396)