Annual Report of the General Accounting OfficeThe Office, 1960 - Finance, Public |
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... Congress , or its committees , Members , or officers , 224 reports on audits or investigations , of which 119 ... Congress . We submitted 426 reports to committees of the Congress at their request for our comments on proposed legislation ...
... Congress , or its committees , Members , or officers , 224 reports on audits or investigations , of which 119 ... Congress . We submitted 426 reports to committees of the Congress at their request for our comments on proposed legislation ...
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... Congress to act in its behalf in independently examining the manner in which Government agencies discharge their financial responsibilities with regard to public funds appropriated otherwise made available to them by the Congress and to ...
... Congress to act in its behalf in independently examining the manner in which Government agencies discharge their financial responsibilities with regard to public funds appropriated otherwise made available to them by the Congress and to ...
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... Congress , relates in consider- able detail the assistance we have been able to furnish to the Congress during the fiscal year as a result of our audit and investigative work and through other work performed by our Office . Although the ...
... Congress , relates in consider- able detail the assistance we have been able to furnish to the Congress during the fiscal year as a result of our audit and investigative work and through other work performed by our Office . Although the ...
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... Congress to enable the Government and other shippers to recover such unreasonable charges . Two bills , S. 3389 and H.R. 8031 , intended to accomplish this purpose , were introduced in the 86th Congress . In response to requests for our ...
... Congress to enable the Government and other shippers to recover such unreasonable charges . Two bills , S. 3389 and H.R. 8031 , intended to accomplish this purpose , were introduced in the 86th Congress . In response to requests for our ...
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... Congress placed the General Accounting Office in the legislative branch of the Government was to be assured of a ... Congress , its committees , and Mem- bers is of the highest importance . To assure appropriate attention to this work we ...
... Congress placed the General Accounting Office in the legislative branch of the Government was to be assured of a ... Congress , its committees , and Mem- bers is of the highest importance . To assure appropriate attention to this work we ...
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Page 255 - ... the Comptroller General of the United States or any of his duly authorized representatives shall, until the expiration of three years after final payment, have access to and the right to examine any directly pertinent books, documents, papers, and records of the contractor or any of his subcontractors engaged in the performance of, and involving transactions related to such contracts or subcontracts...
Page 265 - Corporation pertaining to its financial transactions and necessary to facilitate the audit, and they shall be afforded full facilities for verifying transactions with the balances or securities held by depositaries, fiscal agents, and custodians.
Page 254 - USC 1827 which provides in pertinent part : "(b) The financial transactions of the Corporation shall be audited by the General Accounting Office in accordance with the principles and procedures applicable to commercial corporate transactions and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States.
Page 23 - The accounts of the Corporation shall be audited annually in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards by independent certified public accountants or independent licensed public accountants certified or licensed by a regulatory authority of a State or other political subdivision of the United States.
Page 4 - Congress is in session, he shall make recommendations looking to greater economy or efficiency in public expenditures. (b) He shall make such investigations and reports as shall be ordered by either House of Congress or by any committee of either House having jurisdiction over revenue, appropriations, or expenditures.
Page 146 - ... in the number of children whose membership results directly from activities of the United States (carried on either directly or through a contractor), multiplied by 45 per centum of the average per pupil cost of constructing minimum school facilities in the State in which the school district of such agency is situated.
Page 255 - The audit shall be conducted at the place or places where the accounts of the corporation are normally kept. All books, accounts, financial records, reports, files, and all other papers, things, or property belonging to or in use by the...
Page 264 - President determines that compliance with section 2313 (b) of title 10, United States Code, for contracts made under this Act for the establishment or development of military installations and facilities in foreign countries would interfere with the carrying out of this Act; and (2) the Secretary of Defense and the Comptroller General have agreed upon alternative methods of adequately auditing those contracts; the President may exempt those contracts from the requirements of that section.
Page 23 - Act, as amended ; and (2) maintain an integral set of accounts which shall be audited annually by the General Accounting Office in accordance with the principles and procedures applicable to commercial transactions as provided by the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended...
Page 249 - ... retired or retirement pay under Title III of the Army and Air Force Vitalization and Retirement Equalization Act of 1948 who has served less than eight years on full-time duty in active military service other than active duty for training. (d) "Dependent" means any person who bears to a member or retired member of a uniformed service...