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November 21, 2019 By cs

DoD’s second financial audit uncovers 1,300 new deficiencies

The results of the Pentagon’s second-ever full financial audit are a decidedly mixed bag: Although officials were able to point to some areas of significant progress in managing the Defense Department’s finances over the past year, overall, auditors are uncovering new problems faster than the department is fixing them.

At this time a year ago, auditors had made 2,410 separate findings and recommendations during the department’s first-ever financial audit. In the 2019 financial report DoD issued Friday evening, officials said 556 of those had been resolved. But besides the more than 1,800 problems the department is still wrestling with from 2018, auditors made more than 1,300 new findings during the course of the latest audit.

In addition, the audit turned up a larger number of material weaknesses this year.

Keep reading this article at: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2019/11/dods-second-financial-audit-uncovers-1300-new-deficiencies/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: audit, deficiencies, DISA, DoD, financial management, government property, Pentagon, Senate Armed Services Committee

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