    U.S. Government Accountability Office: Performance and
    Accountability Highlights: Fiscal Year 2006 (30-JAN-07,
    GAO-07-3SP).

    This report presents the highlights of GAO's fiscal year 2006
    Performance and Accountability report. In short, fiscal year 2006
    was an exceptional year for GAO. For example, we received a clean
    opinion from independent auditors on our financial statements.
    Senior GAO executives and the Comptroller General delivered
    testimonies at 240 hearings covering a range of topics, including
    the tax gap and tax reform, U.S. border security, Iraq and
    Hurricane Katrina activities, and issues affecting the health and
    pay of military servicemembers. Our testimonies significantly
    surpassed the fiscal year 2006 target we set as well as our
    actual performance over the last 4 years, and 92 percent of the
    congressional staff responding to our client feedback survey
    either strongly or generally agreed that our testimonies and
    written products were delivered on time to them. Though we were 6
    percentage points shy of our timeliness target, we will continue
    our quest to improve the timeliness of our products. In addition,
    we also met or exceeded four of our eight performance measures
    that gauge how well we developed, challenged, and managed our
    workforce. We documented $51 billion in financial benefits--a
    record high for us that represents a return of $105 for every
    dollar we spent--and over 1,342 nonfinancial benefits.
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    REPORTNUM:   GAO-07-3SP
        ACCNO:   A65390
      TITLE:     U.S. Government Accountability Office: Performance and
    Accountability Highlights: Fiscal Year 2006
         DATE:   01/30/2007
      SUBJECT:   Accountability
    	     Agency missions
    	     Cost control
    	     Financial management
    	     Internal controls
    	     Performance measures
    	     Productivity in government
    	     Quality control
    	     Strategic planning

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