The Social Security Administration needs to work with other federal agencies and state government and share data to make sure Social Security payments are made properly, Office of Federal Fina

The Internal Revenue Service issued more than $11 billion in improper payments through its Earned Income Tax Credit program last year, according to 

All week long, as part of the Federal News Radio special report, "

If Congress initiated the CFO Act in 1990 and the assorted laws and regulations that followed over the next 23 years to create a governmentwide foundation, then data, risk and the need to continually

Government spending is changing — drastically. You know.

Having witnessed the struggles that come with large-scale, complex financial management systems, the Office of Management and Budget now wants agencies to opt instead for shared service provid

Over the past few years, unimplemented agency inspector general recommendations that could potentially save the government billions of dollars have piled up.

Agencies will have to take a test to measure just how ready they are to move their financial management system to a federal shared-service provider.

Interagency contracting and the IRS Business Systems Modernization program are no longer considered high risk initiatives by the Government Accountability Office.

The chief impediments to streamlining federal functions are “parochial stakeholder interests” and a lack of urgency among managers implementing laws and programs, U.S.

House and Senate lawmakers have called on President Barack Obama to fill inspector general vacancies at six large agencies, including open spots at the departments of Homeland Security and State.

WASHINGTON -- The Government Accountability Office 

Over 400 government financial professionals gathered at AGA’s Federal Financial Systems Summit in Washington last week to learn about and to discuss the near-term and future prospects of

The Treasury Department won’t start relocating hundreds of federal employees from Maryland to West Virginia until the end of 2019, according to news releases.

Treasury has put plans on hold

WASHINGTON - The next time you hear government officials insist they're doing all they can to save federal money or ensure safety, consider this: the U.S.

CGI Federal Inc. has won a $21 million contract to transition and host the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board’s financial management systems in the CGI Momentum Community Cloud.

The Interior Department’s National Business Center has been restructured and is now the Interior Business Center, according to a Dec. 6 announcement.

The Air Force’s controller, Jamie Morin, admitted publicly in April that the service spent seven years and $1 billion on a logistics management system that had “negligible” capability.

The Homeland Security Department’s decade-long struggle to integrate components and achieve clean books passed a major milestone with the release this month of DHS’ annual financial report, offici

Beef jerky, a microbrewery and windmills are among the hundreds of items the Defense Department is not only spending money on, but producing each year.

6th Annual Oracle Federal Forum 

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
7:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Wardman Park Marriott
2660 Woodley Road
NW

WILLIAMSBURG, Va.-- The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board had so
much success moving Recovery.gov to the cloud, it is looking there again to give
agencies a new set of accountability to

Denise Wu — partner, Clifton Larson Allen

CFO Charting a Course through Stormy Seas: The Chief Financial Officer in 2012

AGA Research Report Addresses Root Causes of a Material-Weakness Cited in the Audit of the U.S.