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093138 1 (1974-05-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacxaa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ul 1 3 ~ UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOuNTING OFFICE REGIONAL OFFICE ou 7014 FEDERAL BUILDING, 1961 STOUT STREET DENVER, COLORADO 80202 May 22, 1974 Commander Mosalsa Department of the Air Force APO New York 09677 Dear Sir: Our audit of travel and temporary lodging allowance (TLA) vouchers paid by the accounting and finance officer (AFO) at Goose Air Base for the period October 1 through 31, 1973, disclosed the following: Travel TLA vouchers vouchers Total documents 167 18 Statistical sample 84 18 audited Number of errors 4 18 Amount of errors $46.55 $854.83 Error rate 4.8 100.0 Air Force-wide 1.3 8.5 error rate Estimated errors 8 -- Estimated amount $90.00 -- Our review included all travel vouchers (3) of $500 or more and a statistical sample (81) of the remaining travel vouchers in the account, plus all of the TLA payments. All of the travel voucher errors involved payments of per diem allowances to civilian employees and all of these occurred on the vouchers in amounts of less than $500. Attachment I lists the travel and TLA vouchers on which the monetary errors were found, with explanations. Our prior letter dated January 31, 1972, covering the audit of documents for the period July 1, 1970 through March 31, 1971, reported one error for travel vouchers (error rate 0.4) and two errors for TLA vouchers (error rate 9.5).