Bureau of the Census: Management Issues Require Prompt Attention
(Testimony, 06/09/94, GAO/T-GGD/AIMD-94-171).

This testimony discusses the following two key Census Bureau management
issues: the Bureau's recent efforts to recover unliquidated obligations
and the Bureau's impending reorganization.  GAO concludes that the
Bureau needs to address its financial management problems promptly.
Sound financial management is essential to maintain the Bureau's
credibility with Congress so that it can obtain the money it needs to
plan for the mammoth job of reforming and carrying out the year 2000
Decennial Census.  The Bureau intends to address other management issues
by its reorganization, but the success of the reorganization in
achieving specific measurable results remains to be seen.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-GGD/AIMD-94-171
     TITLE:  Bureau of the Census: Management Issues Require Prompt 
             Attention
      DATE:  06/09/94
   SUBJECT:  Budget obligations
             Census
             Federal agency reorganization
             Internal controls
             Financial management
             Federal agency accounting systems
             Unexpended budget balances
             Planning
             Information gathering operations
             Interagency relations

             
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