Governmentwide purchase cards : actions needed to strengthen internal controls to reduce fraudulent, improper, and abusive purchases : report to the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate / U.S. Government Accountability Office.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office, author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government purchase cards--United States.

Government purchase cards.

Waste in government spending--United States.

Waste in government spending.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 56 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2008.

Summary:

Over the past several years, GAO has issued numerous reports and testimonies on internal control breakdowns in certain individual agencies' purchase card programs. In light of these findings, GAO was asked to analyze purchase card transactions governmentwide to (1) determine whether internal control weaknesses existed in the government purchase card program and (2) if so, identify examples of fraudulent, improper, and abusive activity. GAO used statistical sampling to systematically test internal controls and data mining procedures to identify fraudulent, improper, and abusive activity. GAO's work was not designed to determine the overall extent of fraudulent, improper, or abusive transactions.

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