Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and Mismanagement: Hearings Before the Task Force on Education and Training of the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, Hearings Held in Washington, DC, May 24 & June 14, 2000, Volumen4U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000 - 77 páginas |
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additional application Arkansas audit auditors Bell Atlantic budget cation Chairman HOEKSTRA cial classroom Clinger-Cohen Act COLLINS Committee Congress currently Department of Education Department's disability discharge documentation duplicative payments Ed-Flex Education's employees ENGEL ensure Ernst & Young FAFSAS Federal funds Federal Government financial audit financial statements fiscal year 1999 fraud fraudulent Gateway computers going grantback account guaranty agencies HICKOK Holly Grove identify implemented improve internal control weaknesses issues JARMON LEWIS ment million MURRIN North Little Rock Office partment Pell grant Pennsylvania percent performance PETER HOEKSTRA prepared statement principal problems received recommendations reconciliations records reform regulations requirements RIVERS school districts SCLAFANI Senator HUTCHINSON special education specific spending student loan Sweeney Task Force taxpayers teachers Telecommunications Specialist testimony Thank TIM HUTCHINSON tion Title I coordinator transactions Treasury waste and abuse
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Página 55 - The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.
Página 21 - Reportable conditions are matters coming to the auditors' attention that, in their judgment, should be communicated because they represent significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls that could adversely affect the organization's ability to meet the objectives of reliable financial reporting and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
Página 23 - IT projects are being implemented at acceptable costs and within reasonable and expected time frames and that they are contributing to tangible, observable improvements in mission performance (ie, that projects are meeting the cost, schedule, and performance commitments upon which their approval was justified). For programs such as SPS, DOD requires this cost, schedule, and performance information to be reported quarterly to ensure that programs do not deviate significantly from expectations.
Página 20 - February 2000. We shared a draft of this statement with Education officials, who provided technical comments. We have incorporated their comments where appropriate. Our work was conducted in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. Fiscal Year 1999 Audit Results The Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) implementation guidance for audited financial statements requires the 24 CFO Act agencies to receive three reports from their auditors annually: (1) an opinion or report...
Página 21 - Education did not have adequate internal controls over its financial reporting process. Its general ledger system was not able to perform an automated year-end closing process and directly produce consolidated financial statements as would normally be expected from such systems. Because of these weaknesses, Education had to resort to a costly, labor-intensive, and time-consuming process involving manual and automated procedures to prepare financial statements for fiscal year 1999.
Página 55 - The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people: and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the state.
Página 21 - A material internal control weakness is a reportable condition that precludes the entity's internal controls from providing reasonable assurance that material misstatements in the financial statements or material noncompliance with applicable laws or regulations will be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
Página 9 - Introduction My name is Daniel J. Murrin. I am the National Director of Public Sector Services for Ernst & Young LLP, a public accounting firm. I have been in public accounting for over 20 years, with a specialty in the Public Sector - Federal government.
Página 14 - The objectives of a system are to provide management with reasonable, but not absolute, assurance that assets are safeguarded against loss from unauthorized use or disposition and that transactions are executed in accordance with management's authorization and recorded properly to permit the preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
Página 18 - Education's information systems, such as lack of an effective process to monitor security violations, increase the risk of unauthorized access or disruption in services and make Education's sensitive grant and loan data vulnerable to inadvertent or deliberate misuse, fraudulent use, improper disclosure, or destruction, all of which could occur without being detected in a timely manner.