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GAO-06-970 Financial Management: Improvements Under Way but Serious Financial Systems Problems Persist
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.
Since the enactment of key financial mgmt. (FM) reforms, the fed. gov¿t. has devoted significant resources to improving FM activities and practices. Yet continuing attention is needed to address persistent, long-standing accountability problems and to redefine success for fed. FM. Many gov¿t. agency FM systems do not produce the accurate, timely, and meaningful info. needed for mgmt. decision making. This forum brought together FM leaders from the fed. gov¿t., incl. the CFO, CIO, and IG communities, and other officials with extensive experience in FM from both the public and private sectors. The forum addressed: the future of fed. FM; applying lessons learned from fed. FM system implementations; and strategies for transforming fed. FM culture.
The Pres¿s. budget request for the DoD Defense Health Program has increased steadily in recent years. For ex., from FY 2005 to FY 2009, the budget request for the program increased from $17.6 billion to $23.6 billion, an increase of 34%. DoD has attributed a majority of this increase to growth in medical care, dental care, and pharmaceuticals provided in the private sector to active duty personnel and other eligible beneficiaries. These private sector expenses are funded through the Defense Health Program¿s Private Sector Care Budget Activity Group (BAG). From FY 2005 to FY 2009, the budget request for BAG increased by 36% -- from $9.0 billion to $12.2 billion. This report is a review of the FY 2009 budget request for the BAG. Charts and tables.