Audit readiness

Certain agencies miss getting a clean audit bill of health for differing reasons

In today’s Federal Newscast, the departments of Defense and Labor and the Small Business Administration stopped the federal government from fully understanding…

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Even as negative audit findings rise, glimmers of progress on DoD’s 2020 financial statement

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Despite growing list of problems, DoD says financial audit is already yielding benefits

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Navy marks its biggest commercial cloud transition to date

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Donald Trump

Pentagon looking for 2019 improvements after first audit failure

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John McCain

McCain vows penalties if DoD doesn’t complete its first financial audit

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John McCain

McCain threatens to block nomination of deputy Defense secretary for ‘dodging’ questions at confirmation

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DoD CFOs to Congress: If you’d like a clean audit, stop reorganizing us

The Obama administration has already voiced its objections to the major reshuffling of DoD’s organizational chart the Senate proposed in its version…

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DoD working to ensure audit readiness isn’t lost in shuffle of presidential transition

The Defense Department has spent the last seven years getting itself ready for its first-ever financial audit. But the congressionally-mandated timeline…

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2015 a ‘pivotal year’ on path to clean DoD audit, which is also quite expensive

For the first time, nearly all of the Defense Department’s budget is under professional audit, the Pentagon told Congress in a report last week, making 2015 a “pivotal year” in getting the entire department’s books in audit-ready condition by the end of fiscal 2017.

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