Financial Audit: The Key to Reliable Information and Improved Management
Published: Jan 01, 1986. Publicly Released: Jan 01, 1986.
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This article, which appeared in the GAO Review, Vol. 21, Issue 2, Spring 1986, discusses the comprehensive financial auditing of federal government financial statements. GAO began work at the department and agency level to implement financial statement audits to ensure data accuracy and display the effect economic conditions have on the government's financial position.