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Medicaid Financial Management: Steps Taken to Improve Federal Oversight but Other Actions Needed to Sustain Efforts

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following report:Medicaid Financial Management: Steps Taken to Improve Federal Oversight but Other Actions Needed to Sustain Efforts. GAO-06-705, June 22.http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-705http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06705high.pdf These and other GAO products are available from the “Reports and Testimony” … Continue reading

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Forward Observer: Enron on the Potomac

“Lawmakers return this week to a compost heap of phone messages, staff memos, political tracts, newspaper clips, party invitations, government and non-government reports. They would be well served, and hopefully enraged, if they pulled out of the pile one mercifully … Continue reading

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Today’s GAO Publication

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following guidance: Government Auditing Standards: Implementation Tool: Professional Requirements Tool for Use in Implementing Requirements Identified by “Must” and “Should” in the July 2007 Revision of Government Auditing Standards.GAO-08-210G, December 31http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-210G The … Continue reading

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Today’s GAO Reports

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following report: Grants Management:Enhancing Performance Accountability Provisions Could Lead to Better Results.GAO-06-1046, September 29.http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-1046Highlights – http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d061046high.pdf

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GAO GIVES PMA SCORECARD PASSING GRADE

The President’s Management Agenda scorecard has been a valuable tool in helping agencies improve their financial management, according to a recent Government Accountability Office investigation. The PMA scorecard consists of five governmentwide areas — human capital, competitive sourcing, improving financial … Continue reading

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