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GAO: DoD Plan In Place For Meeting Audit Goals But Path Forward Remains Cloudy

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, September 16th, 2011

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In the past year the Defense Department’s comptroller’s office has created a plan for having the military services and defense agencies achieve financial audit readiness goals but details for implementing the path forward remain unclear, which is a concern if the 2017 audit goal is to be reached, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) official said yesterday. The DoD Comptroller is clearing up the remaining steps to achieve the audit goals but so far the “results are mixed,” Asif Khan, director…

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