A routine internal audit found that travel and purchasing polices were not always followed by University of Arkansas, Fayetteville athletics employees and family.
“I did not see fraud,” said Jacob Flournoy, chief audit executive for the University of Arkansas System, speaking to the 10-person University of Arkansas board of trustees about the athletics audit and two others.
He added that he did see “areas where we could strengthen some controls.”
Flournoy spoke Wednesday, but trustees meeting in Little Rock did not approve the audit until Thursday.
The 20-page report described more than a dozen “issues” that took place from July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2017, including two charges “totaling $2,846 related to the payment of airfare for spouses of…
