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D13307 1 (1952-01-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsej0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON 25 January 25, 1952, TO THE HEADS OF DEPAMRTOITS AITD ESTABLIMIMANTS: With the cooperation and assistance of your representatives the staffs of the Bureau of the Budget, Treasury Department and General Accounting Office have developed the attached progress report under the joint accounting irprovement program. This report is intended to provide an illustrative suimmxay of the kind of progress being made throughout the Government by the various individual agencies as well as the central agencies toward achievement of the objectives of the Budget and Accounting Procedures Act of 1950. The report has been prepared in two parts as follows: Part I - A general stumuary indicating and illustrating the general pattern of accounting improvement taking place. Part II - An illustrative summaary intended to provide a general idea of the kind of accoiplishments being made by various individual agencies, as a result of the exercise of their own initiative and constructive efforts, in shaping their accounting to better meet management needs as well as coordinating it with the broader objectives of the joint program. The Secretary of the Treasury, Director of the Bureau of the budget and I had an opportunity today to review and discuss this report with our staffs. We axe much encouraged, as I think you will be, at the way in which the results of the program are taking shape. We are particularly gratified at the increasing extent to which the individual agencies are assuming their responsibilities and taking advantage of their opportunities to male Improvements on their owm initiative in providing improved systems of accounting and internal control for their particular operations. The aecomplishments re- flected In Part II of the report, some of which are used as illustra- tions in Part I, are a direct result of the work done by the agencies themselves and they reflect the ever increasing initiative of agency personnel in tackling the problems involved. The Secretary of the Treasury, the Di rector of the Bureau of the Budget and I are especially appreciative of the cooperation of the agencies with our representatives in tying in the improvements they

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