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Department <strong>of</strong> Defense Agency Financial Report for FY <strong>2012</strong><br />

Table 1a-1. FY <strong>2012</strong> Internal Control over Financial Reporting Material Weaknesses<br />

Material Weaknesses<br />

supported journal<br />

entries.<br />

4 Intragovernmental<br />

Eliminations: The<br />

Department is<br />

unable to collect,<br />

exchange, and<br />

reconcile buyer and<br />

seller<br />

intragovernmental<br />

transactions,<br />

resulting in<br />

unsupported<br />

adjustments.<br />

Year<br />

Identified<br />

DoD<br />

Components<br />

FY 2008 Departmentwide<br />

A-36<br />

Corrective Actions<br />

addition, the Department<br />

is implementing the<br />

Standard Financial<br />

Information Structure in<br />

systems <strong>of</strong> original entry<br />

and carried through the<br />

chain <strong>of</strong> systems. DFAS<br />

and Components are<br />

identifying root causes<br />

for abnormal balances<br />

and taking steps to<br />

change business<br />

processes to correct the<br />

problems. Components<br />

and DFAS are working to<br />

implement routine<br />

general ledger tie point<br />

analyses and<br />

reconciliations and<br />

analyzing general ledger<br />

posting logic to reduce<br />

the number <strong>of</strong><br />

unsupported journal<br />

entries.<br />

The Department is<br />

collaborating with the<br />

Department <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Treasury, OMB, and<br />

Federal partners to<br />

develop and implement a<br />

government-wide<br />

solution to capture the<br />

transaction-level detail<br />

needed to reconcile<br />

intragovernmental<br />

transaction activity. It is<br />

also developing standard<br />

business processes and<br />

data to capture trading<br />

partner information at<br />

the transaction level and<br />

support eliminations, as<br />

well as implementing<br />

replacement systems and<br />

a standard <strong>financial</strong><br />

information structure<br />

which will incorporate the<br />

necessary elements to<br />

enable the Department to<br />

correctly <strong>report</strong>,<br />

reconcile, and eliminate<br />

intragovernmental<br />

balances.<br />

Target<br />

Correction<br />

Year<br />

FY 2015<br />

Addendum A

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