Open Recommendations

We recommend that the Director of the Census Bureau evaluate how the number of incorrectly categorized passive blocks will affect Census quality and how those errors may affect demographic groups.

We recommend that the Hospital strengthen controls to ensure full compliance with Medicare requirements.

Rec. 1.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer implement additional internal controls to document and communicate procedures to current and future budget officials across the Department of Defense. Specifically, the DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer update the DoD Financial Management Regulation, volume 2A, chapters 1 and 3, to include: 1) recurring instructions from the Budget Estimate Submission guidance and President's Budget guidance that are not unique to a particular year; 2) a guide from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service's payroll system's gross reconciliation codes to…

Rec. 1.c: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer implement additional internal controls to document and communicate procedures to current and future budget officials across the Department of Defense. Specifically, the DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer require its analysts to document their procedures, lessons learned, and standard lists of reports and analyses to mitigate the risks of having corporate knowledge limited to a single person or losing the corporate knowledge if key analysts vacate positions, in accordance with GAO 14 704G, "Standards for Internal Control in the…

Rec. 1.d: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer implement additional internal controls to document and communicate procedures to current and future budget officials across the Department of Defense. Specifically, the DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer require the Services and Defense agencies to document their budget development procedures, calculations, and lessons learned to mitigate the risks of having the corporate knowledge limited to a single person or losing the corporate knowledge if key officials vacate positions, in accordance with GAO 14 704G, "Standards for Internal Control in…

Rec. 1.e: The DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer implement additional internal controls to document and communicate procedures to current and future budget officials across the Department of Defense. Specifically, the DoD OIG recommended that the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer develop and require a budget submission checklist to provide additional assurance that the Services and Defense agencies accurately and completely develop their budgets in accordance with the Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-11 and the DoD Financial Management Regulation. The checklist should include directions and reminders for the Services…

Implement systems controls to ensure compliance with current policy, including the two-Personal Identification Number review process.

Rec. 1: Recommendation is Classified.

Configuration Management

Information Security Continuous Monitoring

Direct all Presidential Libraries to assess their holdings to determine the correct percentage of basic processing work as stipulated in NARA’s Analog Records Processing Policy.

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USAID/Zimbabwe determine the allowability of $358,240 in ineligible questioned costs on pages 11, 13, and 15 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.