Internal Controls: Issues Regarding Automated Standard Application for Payment System

GAO reviewed the Financial Management Service's (FMS) Automated Standard Application for Payment (ASAP) system, focusing on: (1) the lack of supervision of certain ASAP system staff's work at two regional financial centers that administer the ASAP system; (2) inconsistent documentation by one of the centers of its review of enrollment forms from federal agencies and organizations that want to participate in the ASAP system; and (3) inappropriate access to the ASAP system's disbursement and return payment processing functions.