AUDIT FOLLOWUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001500050019-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: October 5, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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Remarks: To 11: For direct reply in coordinatior;
with Comptroller. Add1t1o ally. please co nt
to DCI on extent to wi 1ch our audit process may
be a contributin factor.
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20503
October 5, 1978
SUBJECT: Audit followup
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The General Accounting Office has just issued a draft
report on audit followup. It says that operating
departments and agencies have a backlog of $4.3 billion
in unresolved audit findings, and that failure to act on
these findings may be costing the Government hundreds.of
millions of dollars a year. The report says that
-- some officials are waiving recoveries without
proper authority to do so
-- others delay decisions so long that recovery is
precluded
-- agencies lack accounting controls over recovery
actions.
This situation is intolerable, and corrective action must
be taken at once. I urge you to launch an immediate review
of your department or agency system of audit followup.
Guidance on a proper followup system may be found in our
Circular A-73, "Audit of Federal Operations and Programs."
In the meantime, I have asked my staff to meet with yours,
and with the GAO, to discuss the details of the GAO findings,
and their recommendations for corrective action. I would
appreciate your naming someone within the next week to
serve as your representative in this matter. lease
rovide us the name, address, and hone n r
representative so that we ma begin schedulin the meetings.
es T. McIntyre, J H .
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