Financial Management Certification Tracking and Reporting Tool

Abstract

The Investment Review Board approved the Department of Defense Financial Management Certification Program (DFMCP) Problem Statement on July 28th, 2016. The DFMCP meets the business requirement to comply with section 1051 of the FY 2012 NDAA, Public Law 112-8 for improved audit readiness and analytic capability of the 54,000-strong Financial Management (FM) workforce. The Department of Defense continues to use the Washington Headquarter Services Learning Management System (LMS) DFMCP system of record. LMS has performed barely adequately in implementing the certification program. A fair assessment by the program office is that despite three years of providing, improving and proliferating training, most FM LMS users and administrators cannot use the LMS proficiently. The result from the users’ perspectives is that the program is flawed, that achievement of certification is unnecessarily difficult, and that instead of enabling the DFMCP, the FM LMS is an obstacle to be surmounted. The FM workforce’s frustration with the FM LMS was raised by the Military Department Comptrollers and the Directors of the DFAS and DCAA as the most significant issue with the new FM Certification Program and an issue requiring immediate resolution. This culminated with an Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) decision to explore other alternatives to the current FM LMS. The existing FM LMS is a cumbersome and expensive system. This effort is to plan, develop, test and implement the DoD Financial Management Certification Tracking and Reporting Tool (FM-CTRT) as a more efficient and cost effective solution.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2019
• Source ID: 929_0605027D8Z_5_0400_PB_2019

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• Defense Acquisition Program Management
• Defense Financial Management and Audit.