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B-163758-O.M. 1 (1973-12-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadswj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFIC TO : General Counsel FROM : Director, TCD - T. B. Sullivan SUBJECT: Use of military funds to defray cost of data input Transportation and Claims -Division has been involved with the military paying offices since July 1969, in an arrangement whereby the finance centers, as a-byproduct of their paying operations for'domestic household goods shipments, input additional data elements required by us. for our computerized audit system for domestic household ..goods payments. The consolidated data are then trans- mitted to us in magnetic tape form-on a monthly basis and we..reimburse the centers quarterly for the cost of pre- paring these data. Since Jtly 1971, the Military Traffic Management and Terminal Service'hag also been obtaining similar data-and the cost of collecting these data has been prorated between the General Accounting Office and Military Traffic Management and Terminal Service. The receipt of information in magnetic tape form has saved us the trouble anC--&xpense of key punching the data for use in the system in'the GAO, and has probably re- sulted in an overall savings to the Government. In addi- tion, we have found that: the computerized audit is a more effective audit than we were able to do on a manual basis becaus6 of the personnel' cost involved. We are currently involved in the development of a computerized system for auditing payments for shipments of general commodities., Again, we are finding that many of the data elements which we require 'for our audit are also required by MTMTS for a new traffic management in- formation system which they are developing. We are, therefore, currently pursuing a cooperative effort with MTMTS to make arrangement to have the data for both of E

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