OPM Revolving Fund: OPM Sets New Tuition Pricing Policy (Letter Report,
04/06/94, GAO/GGD-94-120).

Congress has raised concerns that the tuition charged to federal
agencies for some training courses appeared to unnecessarily exceed the
Office of Personnel Management's course production costs.  GAO sought to
determine (1) how tuition charges are set; (2) whether the tuitions of
individual courses are reasonably related to their costs; and (3) how
excess tuition income, if any, has been used. A lack of documentation on
how tuitions are set hampered GAO's ability to answer the first
objective.  The training activity of OPM's revolving fund has run a
deficit.  OPM recognizes this problem and has developed a new policy to
set prices for training courses so the training activity would recover
all direct and indirect costs, document pricing methods, and reduce the
differences in pricing practices.  These corrective measures should
resolve the problems GAO cited in its review.

--------------------------- Indexing Terms -----------------------------

 REPORTNUM:  GGD-94-120
     TITLE:  OPM Revolving Fund: OPM Sets New Tuition Pricing Policy
      DATE:  04/06/94
   SUBJECT:  Education or training
             Human resources training
             Federal employees
             Revolving funds
             Losses
             Education or training costs
             Funds management
             Price adjustments
             Administrative costs
             Federal agency accounting systems

             
************************************************************************

We regret that the full text of this item is presently unavailable.

See the GAO FAQ - Section 2.0 for printed copy ordering information.
The FAQ is automatically retrieved with all WAIS search results or 
can be obtained by sending e-mail to: info@www.gao.gov