IRS Financial Audits: Status of Efforts to Resolve Financial ManagementWeaknesses. Statement of Gene L. Dodaro, Assistant Comptroller General, Accounting and Information Management Division

摘要

We are pleased to be here today to discuss IRS' efforts to both prepare reliablefinancial statements, as required by the expanded Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act of 1990, and make fundamental financial management improvements. Today, we will focus on the status of IRS' efforts to implement our recommendations and develop a detail plan with explicit, measurable goals and a set timetable for actions to correct its financial management weaknesses; IRS' progress in addressing the major problems that have prevented us from expressing an opinion on its financial statements; the impact that IRS' problems in developing Tax Systems Modernization have on improving financial information; and the significant adverse affect that delays in resolving IRS' financial management weaknesses could have on preparing and auditing Treasury's agencywide financial statements and the financial statements for the entire government.