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Pursuant to the authority vested in the Secretary of Defense under provisions of reference (a), this Directive establishes the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) as an Agency of the Department of Defense with responsibilities, functions, authorities, and relationships as outlined.
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) provides a variety of finance and accounting services to military customers. Because DFAS received customer complaints, its leadership asked RAND to take a comprehensive look at all DFAS-customer interactions to identify problems and determine how those interactions might be improved.
Reports on the qualifications and experience of DoD's financial management workforce. It contains information on key financial managers in the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS). At DFAS, these positions include directors, deputy directors, accounting and finance directorate/division directors and branch chiefs, and personnel working directly on Chief Financial Officers Act statements and notes. This report provides qualification and professional work experience on 3 DFAS financial management executives and 265 of 577 key financial managers representing 22 of the 23 DFAS organizations include in this review. Charts and tables.
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) provides finance and accounting services to customers within the Department of Defense. The authors examine the DFAS pricing structure and its impact on customer demand, the agency's workload, and equity in pricing. The authors found that the DFAS's uniform pricing for finance outputs creates cross-customer subsidization, suggesting a need for nonlinear, customer-specific pricing. The authors also examine whether any negative effects arose from the October 1999 switch from unit billing to hourly billing for DFAS accounting work and found no significant evidence that they had.
Addresses: (1) DoD's rationale for creating the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), (2) the current size of DoD's finance and accounting infrastructure (e.g., locations, personnel, and systems) as compared with its size when DFAS was created, and (3) the various finance and accounting activities performed by DoD personnel. Presents data as of Sept. 30, 1996, which was provided by DoD.