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UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548
FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
EXPECTED AT 9:30 A.M.
108873 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1979
STATEMENT OF
ELMER B. STAATS, COMPTROLLER GENERAL
UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
BEFORE THE
SUBCOMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION AND NATIONAL SECURITY
COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS /4/Z _
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
CONCERNING )ACTIONS OF FEDERAL AGENCIES TO
RESOLVE AUDITORS' FINDINGS]
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:
We are pleased to be with you today to discuss the
results of our Government-wide review of the Executive agencies,
actions to resolve audit findings. With me are Mr. Donald L.
Scantlebury and Mr. Ronald C. Oleyar, both from the Financial and
General Management Studies Division of GAO.
My testimony will summarize the major issues addressed
in a report which we issued on October 25, 1978. The report
discusses the responsibility of Federal managers to take prompt
and appropriate action on auditors' findings. Our review dis-
closed a total of $4.3 billion of unresolved audit findings in
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