GAO Audits Involving DOD: Status of DOD's Efforts to Schedule and Hold Timely Entrance Conferences
Abstract
The Government Accountability Offices (GAO) agency protocols govern our relationships with audited entities. These protocols, coordinated with federal agencies including the Department of Defense (DOD), require agencies to assist us in scheduling an entrance conference within 14calendar days of receiving notice of a new audit.1 The entrance conference provides us an opportunity to communicate our audit objectives and enables agencies to assign key points of contact to support our work. In past years, DOD has experienced difficulty meeting the protocoltarget for the timely facilitation of entrance conferences. In Senate Report 116-48 accompanying a bill for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, the Senate Armed Services Committee included a provision for us to review DODs timely scheduling and holding of entrance conferences. This report evaluates the extent to which DOD scheduled entrance conferences within 14 days, consistent with our protocols, and also held those conferences within 30 days. To address our objective, we collected and analyzed data on GAO audits involving DOD that were initiated in the first quarter of fiscal year 2020, October 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 12, 2020
- Accession Number
- AD1149523
Entities
People
- Elizabeth Field
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office