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AFMD-92-101ML 1 (1992-08-20)

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United States
General Accounting Office
Washington, D.C. 20548

Accounting and Financial
Management Division





August 20, 1992                                       147406

Lieutenant General Wilson A. Shoffner, USA
Commander
Combined Arms Command and Fort Leavenworth
Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027-5012

Dear General Shoffner:

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 $458,000 of adjustments made to the
financial statements that also need to be recorded to
correct the accounting records at Fort Leavenworth. We have
discussed these adjustments with your staff and provided
them with supporting documentation. They may have already
recorded the adjustments. However, both 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
of this letter. We are sending copies of this letter to the


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