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Performance Agreements Lead to Improved Organizational Results: General Accounting Office's (GAO) report, Emerging Benefits from Selected Agencies' Use of Performance Agreements, centered on the implementation of performance agreements in three agencies - Veterans Health Administration, the Department of Transportation, and the Office of Student Financial Assistance within the Department of Education. Each agency uses performance agreements to...; Tags: Performance management, BetterManagement.com, General Accounting Office, agency, performance, Performance Appraisal, accountability; White papers
Inter-jurisdictional Cooperation: A Case Study on Cyber Crime: Attorney General Shurtleff quotes the U.S. General Accounting Office as estimating about 750,000 Internet fraud complaints nationally in 2002, at a loss of over $1 thousand-million. Shurtleff acknowledges that even one person with evil intent can cause untold millions of dollars in damages. Recently, Shurtleff was appointed by the National...; Tags: prosecutor, Internet; Case studies
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Burdens Small Firms: GAO Study: Small businesses are disproportionately burdened by a law that requires public companies to prove they've got adequate controls in place to prevent accounting mistakes, a Government Accountability Office report found. The report comes two days before a roundtable meeting, to be hosted by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, accounting, small business; White papers 2006-05-09
Export-Import Bank: Changes Would Improve the Reliability of Reporting on Small Business Financing: The Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) provides loans, loan guarantees, and insurance to support U.S. exports. Its level of support for small business has been a long-standing issue of congressional interest. Most recently in 2002, Congress increased the proportion of financing Ex-Im must make available for small business to 20 percent. GAO...; Tags: Government Accountability Office, small business, General Accounting Office, financing, insurance; White papers 2006-03-03
Benefit System Collapse Possible: GAO: Since 2002, employer spending on benefits has shot up faster than wages, with the rise largely fueled by the rising costs of health insurance and retirement benefits. Since productivity growth won't support the rising cost of health-care and other benefits, the entire "Employer-sponsored system of benefits in its current form...; Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, CFO Publishing Corp., General Accounting Office, benefit, salary, health care, health insurance, worker; White papers 2006-02-27

Veterans' Disability Benefits: Claims Processing Challenges and Opportunities for Improvements: The Chairman, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, asked GAO to report on the claims processing challenges and opportunities facing the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disability compensation and pension program. VA's outdated disability determination process does not reflect a current view of the relationship between impairments and...; Tags: Government Accountability Office; White papers 2005-12-07
Financial Audit: Restatement to the General Services Administration's Fiscal Year 2003 Financial Statements: This paper consist of a document which reports that the Secretary of the Treasury, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is required to annually prepare and submit audited financial statements of the U.S. government to the President and Congress. GAO was asked to...; Tags: Financial accounting, Government Accountability Office, U.S. General Services Administration, restatement, General Accounting Office, financial statement, financial, audit; White papers 2005-12-06
Veterans' Benefits: Further Changes in VBA's Field Office Structure Could Help Improve Disability Claims Processing: The Chairman, former Chairman, and Ranking Minority Member, Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs asked GAO to review the Veterans Benefits Administration's (VBA) efforts to realign its compensation and pension claims processing field structure to improve performance. This report identifies the actions VBA has taken to realign its compensation and pension...; Tags: Scripting languages, Performance management, Benefits, Government Accountability Office, Microsoft VBA, compensation, chairman, performance, benefit; White papers 2005-12-01
Telecommunications: Strong Support for Extending FCC's Auction Authority Exists, But Little Agreement on Other Options to Improve Efficient Use of Spectrum: The radio-frequency spectrum is a natural resource used to provide an array of wireless communications services, such as television broadcasting, which are critical to the U.S. economy and national security. In 1993, the Congress gave the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authority to use competitive bidding, or auctions, to assign spectrum...; Tags: Federal government, Government Accountability Office, FCC, spectrum, auction, broadcasting, small business, telecommunications, agreement, TV, wireless; White papers 2005-12-01
Potential Spectrum Interference Associated With Military Land Mobile Radios: To address homeland defense needs and comply with government direction that agencies use the electromagnetic spectrum more efficiently, the Department of Defense (DOD) is deploying new Land Mobile Radios to military installations across the country. The new Land Mobile Radios operate in the same frequency range of 380 Megahertz (MHz)...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Government Accountability Office, U.S. Department of Defense, radio, agency, mobile; White papers 2005-12-01
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration: Education and Outreach Programs Target Safety and Consumer Issues, But Gaps in Planning and Evaluation Remain: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is responsible for improving commercial vehicle safety and uses education and outreach as part of its efforts. The House report accompanying the fiscal year 2005 Department of Transportation (DOT) appropriations bill asked GAO to report on FMCSA's education and outreach programs to the...; Tags: Government Accountability Office, education; White papers 2005-12-01
Medicare and Medicaid Coverage: Therapies and Supplies for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) affects an estimated one million Americans. IBD patients often have difficulty digesting food. As a result, they may require parenteral nutrition (intravenous feeding) or enteral nutrition (tube feeding), medically necessary food products to supplement their diets, and medications. The Research Review Act of 2004 directed GAO...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Government Accountability Office, Medicaid, Medicare, therapy, food, nutrition, patient; White papers 2005-12-01
Homeland Security: DHS Needs to Improve Ethics-Related Management Controls for the Science and Technology Directorate: The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate was established to focus on areas such as addressing countermeasures for biological threats. To do this, it hired experts from the national laboratories under the authority of the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA). This paper examines the management controls established...; Tags: Government Accountability Office, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, ethics, homeland security, R&D; White papers 2005-12-01
Review of OMB Circular A-76 Health Benefit Cost Factor Needed: Determining whether to obtain required services using government employees or through contracts with the private sector is an important economic and strategic decision for agency managers. This document consist of a report, the purpose of which is to convey an issue identified during the course of an ongoing review of...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Benefits, Government Accountability Office, health benefit, agency, health care; White papers 2005-11-17
Human Capital: Observations on Final Regulations for DOD's National Security Personnel System: People are critical to any agency transformation because they define an agency's culture, develop its knowledge base, promote innovation, and are its most important asset. Thus, strategic human capital management at the Department of Defense (DOD) can help it marshal, manage, and maintain the people and skills needed to meet...; Tags: Regulations, Organizational structure, Government Accountability Office, U.S. Department of Defense, human capital, regulation, HRMS, personnel management, human capital management, HRM, agency, knowledge base, Human Resources, asset, knowledge; White papers 2005-11-17
CFO Act of 1990: Driving the Transformation of Federal Financial Management: In 1990, the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act, heralded as the most comprehensive financial management reform legislation in 40 years, was enacted. The Act's goal is to improve management through reliable, useful, and timely financial and performance information for day-to-day decision-making and accountability. This report outlines the legislative history of...; Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, Government Accountability Office, financial management, CFO, accountability, financial, decision-making, performance; White papers 2005-11-17
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Preliminary Observations on Contracting for Response and Recovery Efforts: This report provides an overview of GAO's role in evaluating the contracting community with regard to disaster preparedness and response, GAO's plans for reviewing the performance of the federal government and its contractors in preparing for and responding to the hurricanes, and what GAO has learned so far about the...; Tags: Performance management, Government Accountability Office, General Accounting Office, hurricane, federal government, performance; White papers 2005-11-08
Telecommunications: Preliminary Information on the Federal Communications Commission's Spectrum Allocation and Assignment Process: The radiofrequency spectrum is a natural resource used to provide an array of wireless communications services, such as mobile voice and data services, radio and television broadcasting, radar, and satellite-based services, which are critical to the U.S. economy and national security. This paper examines the characteristics of the current spectrum...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Government Accountability Office, radar, broadcasting, data service, allocation, satellite, small business, radio, telecommunications, TV, wireless, mobile; White papers 2005-11-10
Influenza Pandemic: Applying Lessons Learned From the 2004-05 Influenza Vaccine Shortage: Concern has been rising about the nation's preparedness to respond to vaccine shortages that could occur in future annual influenza seasons or during an influenza pandemic--a global influenza outbreak. This paper provides a statement on lessons learned from the 2004-05 vaccine shortage and their relevance to planning and preparing for...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Government Accountability Office, influenza, vaccine, General Accounting Office; White papers 2005-11-04
Anabolic Steroids Are Easily Purchased Without a Prescription and Present Significant Challenges to Law Enforcement Officials: This document consists of a report that responds to a Congressional request to find whether anabolic steroids can be purchased without a prescription and test whether such purchases are easily made. The report further identifies the common sources of illegal anabolic steroids, and significant challenges law enforcement officials encounter in...; Tags: Government Accountability Office, prescription; White papers 2005-11-03