GAO: Summary of Performance and Financial Information Fiscal Year 2016

Abstract

The Government Accountability Office, the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the Congress, exists to support the Congress in meeting its constitutional responsibilities and to help improve the performance and ensure the accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American people. We examine the use of public funds; evaluate federal programs and policies; and provide analyses, recommendations, and other assistance to help the Congress make informed oversight, policy, and funding decisions. To fulfill our mission, we organize and manage our resources to support four broad strategic goals. These include three external goals: helping to address challenges to the well-being and financial security of the American people, responding to changing security threats and the challenges of global interdependence, and transforming the federal government to address national challenges. Our fourth strategic goal is an internal goal - to maximize our value by enabling quality, timely service to the Congress and being a leading practices federal agency. To help determine how well we are meeting the needs of the Congress and the nation and maximizing our value as a leading practices agency, we assess our performance annually using a balanced set of quantitative measures. To establish targets for all of our performance measures, we examine our past performance and the external factors that could influence our future work and discuss with our senior executives what could be accomplished in the upcoming fiscal year. We may adjust these targets after we publish our annual performance plan based on changes in planned work or level of funding. Key annual performance measures that highlight our performance in significant areas related to the implementation of our mission are provided below. In fiscal year 2016, we met or exceeded the goals we set for all but two of the areas measured.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1167330

Entities

People

  • Eugene Louis Dodaro

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attrition
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Department Of State
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Federal Budgets
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Health Care
  • Homeland Security
  • Information Systems
  • Job Training
  • Law
  • Money
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Public Administration
  • Security
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Strategic Security Studies