United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Accounting and Information Management Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1995-03-28 monographic deposited born digital GA 1.13:T-AIMD-95-101 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-95-101 P0b002ee18037c015 f:tai95101 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-95-101 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-95-101 T-AIMD-95-101 Cost accounting Travel costs Federal agency accounting systems Travel allowances Defense cost control Accounting procedures Total quality management Claims processing TQM Testimony AIMD With processing costs accounting for at least 30 percent of the $3.5 billion that the Pentagon spent on travel in fiscal year 1993, adopting private industry's "best practices" for travel management could save millions of dollars. The Defense Department (DOD) needs to streamline its complex processing system, which involves 700 voucher-processing centers, multiple travel agencies, and more than 1,300 regulations. "Best practices" in the private sector include empowering employees to make travel decisions, reducing the number of travel agents to as few as one, consolidating multiple travel-processing centers into a single facility, and simplifying travel policies to less than 20 pages. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-95-101/html/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-95-101.htm GAO/T-AIMD-95-101 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-AIMD-95-101 Testimony GAO/T-AIMD-95-101; Business Process Reengineering: DOD Has a Significant Opportunity to Reduce Travel Costs by Using Industry Practices; Cost accounting Travel costs Federal agency accounting systems Travel allowances Defense cost control Accounting procedures Total quality management Claims processing TQM