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AFMD-92-97ML 1 (1992-08-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobachos0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Uited States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Accounting and Financial Management Division B- 2487 17 r llf f~lfIll IN1111 l I August 19, 1992 147405 Colonel Kent D. Menser, USA Commander U.S. Army Garrison Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755-5000 Dear Colonel Menser: We recently completed an audit of the Department of the Army's fiscal year 1991 consolidated financial statements pursuant to the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-576). One purpose of these statements and our audit is to provide agency managers and the Congress with complete and reliable information to use in financing, managing, and evaluating Army programs. In order to do this effectively, the accounting records throughout the Army need to be as accurate as possible. During our audit, we identified adjustments necessary to correct the accounting records at 23 Army locations. We presented adjustments to correct the Army's consolidated financial statements in a May 19, 1992, management letter (GAO/AFMD-92-68ML) to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and the Director, Defense Finance and Accounting Service. However, many of these adjustments were projections based upon statistical samples performed as part of our audit and were made only to the consolidated financial statements, not to the underlying records. Enclosure I shows about $325 million of adjustments made to the financial statements that also need to be recorded to correct the accounting records at Fort Meade. We have discussed most of these adjustments with your staff and' provided them with supporting documentation. They may have already recorded some of the adjustments. However, all of the adjustments should be made by the end of fiscal year 1992. If you have any questions or require our assistance in resolving these matters, please contact Terry Carnahan, Acting Associate Director, on (202) 275-7095. Please provide us your comments on these matters and a description of the actions taken within 30 days of the date GAO/AFMD-92-97ML