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AFMD-92-100ML 1 (1992-08-20)

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

  Accounting and Financial
  Management Division


B-248717
                                                    147417
 August 20, 1992

 Brigadier General William G. Carter, III
 Commander, AFZJ-CG
 National Training Center
 Fort Irwin, CA 92310

 Dear General Carter:

 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 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 $177.6 million of adjustments made
 to the financial statements that also need to be recorded to
 correct the accounting records at Fort Irwin. We have
 discussed 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
of this letter. We are sending copies of this letter to the

                                            GAO/AFMD-92-100ML