Improving the Defense Finance and Accounting Service's interactions with its customers / Edward G. Keating [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keating, Edward G. (Edward Geoffrey), 1965- author.

Contributor:

National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Armed Forces--Appropriations and expenditures.

United States.

United States--Armed Forces--Accounting.

United States. Defense Finance and Accounting Service.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (66 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text records the results of an investigation into ways in which the service provided by the DFAS to its military customers could be improved. Broadly, four recommendations were made: develop the ability to respond to crises, continue pricing reforms, acquire new software, and utilize the Web.

Contents:

Preface; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Acronyms; 1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Methodology; 4. DFAS's Interactions with Its Customers; 5. DFAS Finance Services; 6. DFAS Accounting Services; 7. Recommendations; A. Businesslike Behavior from Defense Working Capital Fund Entities?; B. Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, and the Chief Financial Officers Act; C. Private-Sector Software Challenges; D. The Literature on Outsourcing; References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781598751505

1598751506

OCLC:

171566413