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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