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OPM Revolving Fund: OPM Sets New Tuition Pricing Policy

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date April 6, 1994
Report No. GGD-94-120
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Summary:

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.

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