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USDA Financial Systems: Additional Actions Needed to Resolve Major Problems

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 29, 1995
Report No. AIMD-95-222
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Summary:

To manage its $146 billion in assets and to account for $75 billion in expenditures for fiscal year 1994, the Agriculture Department (USDA) used 115 separate financial management systems that performed overlapping and similar functions. These systems are not integrated, contain inconsistent and inaccurate data, and are plagued with internal control weaknesses. To address these problems and carry out its financial management system responsibilities under the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, USDA began implementing a project in 1993 known as the Financial Information Systems Vision and Strategy. This report discusses whether the project will (1) resolve USDA's major financial system weaknesses and (2) consolidate USDA's separate financial and mixed systems that perform similar functions, as well as reengineer USDA's financial processes.

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