The document discusses strategies for mitigating fraud, waste and abuse in government procurement programs that utilize purchase cards (P-Cards). It outlines how P-Cards can reduce transaction costs but also increase risks of fraud. It then examines the U.S. government's experience with P-Card programs, how various agencies implemented controls like card issuance policies and spending limits, and strategies like automation, monitoring, and approval processes to balance convenience and control.
Critical Mission Support Achieved Through Custom Procurement SolutionsJean Gleason
Federal government procurement policies are complex, stringent and increasingly require more transparency. Because government services are funded by taxpayer dollars, due diligence is a necessary component to ensure optimal and appropriate use of available funding. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant progress in adopting custom purchase and payment programs to help streamline complex procurement of commercial products and services. This paper will address the rationale and advantages behind custom purchase and payment program adoption and the options that should be considered to achieve further cost saving enhancements. It will address closed-loop, private procurement and payment solutions and why they are advantageous over traditional off-the-shelf solutions in specific industries in the domestic and overseas marketplace.
Critical Mission Support Achieved through Custom Procurement SolutionsMulti Service
Federal government procurement policies are complex, stringent and increasingly require more transparency. Because government services are funded by taxpayer dollars, due diligence is a necessary component to ensure optimal and appropriate use of available funding. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant progress in adopting custom purchase and payment programs to help streamline complex procurement of commercial products and services. This paper will address the rationale and advantages behind custom purchase and payment program adoption and the options that should be considered to achieve further cost saving enhancements. It will address closed-loop, private procurement and payment solutions and why they are advantageous over traditional off-the-shelf solutions in specific industries in the domestic and overseas marketplace.
Critical Mission Support Achieved through Custom Procurement SolutionsDoretta
Federal government procurement policies are complex, stringent and increasingly require more transparency. Because government services are funded by taxpayer dollars, due diligence is a necessary component to ensure optimal and appropriate use of available funding. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant progress in adopting custom purchase and payment programs to help streamline complex procurement of commercial products and services. This paper will address the rationale and advantages behind custom purchase and payment program adoption and the options that should be considered to achieve further cost saving enhancements. It will address closed-loop, private procurement and payment solutions and why they are advantageous over traditional off-the-shelf solutions in specific industries in the domestic and overseas marketplace.
Developing a Preventative and Sustainable P-card ProgramCaseWare IDEA
Andrew Simpson from CaseWare Analytics talks about how educational institutions can implement a continuous monitoring program for their p-cards (purchase card) and the benefits.
SLIDESHARE: www.slideshare.net/CaseWare_Analytics
WEBSITE: www.casewareanalytics.com
BLOG: www.casewareanalytics.com/blog
TWITTER: www.twitter.com/CW_Analytic
Super data-charging your corruption reviews with integrated analyticsJim Kaplan CIA CFE
Super-Data-Charging Your Corruption Reviews With Integrated Analytics - It comes as no surprise that the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners fraud surveys over the past 10 years identify corruption as the most frequently occurring fraud scheme. Corruption has come under great focus in the last decade with enhanced enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act but has been a concept dating back to the start of business. What has changed are the tools and more precisely, analytics, which can be used to detect bribery and other corruption schemes.
Specific learning objectives include:
o Explore the top internal and external data sources to interrogate for corruption schemes.
o Be able to identify the key red flags leading to corrupt behavior and how they present themselves in data.
o Learn to bolster any compliance program with data-driven prediction and decision making analytics.
o Complete a who, what, when, and where set of analytics to hone in on the specific corruption and bribery within your business processes.
o Understand the benefits of integrating and managing a continuous review of data sets to identify corrupt behavior.
Critical Mission Support Achieved Through Custom Procurement SolutionsJean Gleason
Federal government procurement policies are complex, stringent and increasingly require more transparency. Because government services are funded by taxpayer dollars, due diligence is a necessary component to ensure optimal and appropriate use of available funding. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant progress in adopting custom purchase and payment programs to help streamline complex procurement of commercial products and services. This paper will address the rationale and advantages behind custom purchase and payment program adoption and the options that should be considered to achieve further cost saving enhancements. It will address closed-loop, private procurement and payment solutions and why they are advantageous over traditional off-the-shelf solutions in specific industries in the domestic and overseas marketplace.
Critical Mission Support Achieved through Custom Procurement SolutionsMulti Service
Federal government procurement policies are complex, stringent and increasingly require more transparency. Because government services are funded by taxpayer dollars, due diligence is a necessary component to ensure optimal and appropriate use of available funding. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant progress in adopting custom purchase and payment programs to help streamline complex procurement of commercial products and services. This paper will address the rationale and advantages behind custom purchase and payment program adoption and the options that should be considered to achieve further cost saving enhancements. It will address closed-loop, private procurement and payment solutions and why they are advantageous over traditional off-the-shelf solutions in specific industries in the domestic and overseas marketplace.
Critical Mission Support Achieved through Custom Procurement SolutionsDoretta
Federal government procurement policies are complex, stringent and increasingly require more transparency. Because government services are funded by taxpayer dollars, due diligence is a necessary component to ensure optimal and appropriate use of available funding. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant progress in adopting custom purchase and payment programs to help streamline complex procurement of commercial products and services. This paper will address the rationale and advantages behind custom purchase and payment program adoption and the options that should be considered to achieve further cost saving enhancements. It will address closed-loop, private procurement and payment solutions and why they are advantageous over traditional off-the-shelf solutions in specific industries in the domestic and overseas marketplace.
Developing a Preventative and Sustainable P-card ProgramCaseWare IDEA
Andrew Simpson from CaseWare Analytics talks about how educational institutions can implement a continuous monitoring program for their p-cards (purchase card) and the benefits.
SLIDESHARE: www.slideshare.net/CaseWare_Analytics
WEBSITE: www.casewareanalytics.com
BLOG: www.casewareanalytics.com/blog
TWITTER: www.twitter.com/CW_Analytic
Super data-charging your corruption reviews with integrated analyticsJim Kaplan CIA CFE
Super-Data-Charging Your Corruption Reviews With Integrated Analytics - It comes as no surprise that the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners fraud surveys over the past 10 years identify corruption as the most frequently occurring fraud scheme. Corruption has come under great focus in the last decade with enhanced enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act but has been a concept dating back to the start of business. What has changed are the tools and more precisely, analytics, which can be used to detect bribery and other corruption schemes.
Specific learning objectives include:
o Explore the top internal and external data sources to interrogate for corruption schemes.
o Be able to identify the key red flags leading to corrupt behavior and how they present themselves in data.
o Learn to bolster any compliance program with data-driven prediction and decision making analytics.
o Complete a who, what, when, and where set of analytics to hone in on the specific corruption and bribery within your business processes.
o Understand the benefits of integrating and managing a continuous review of data sets to identify corrupt behavior.
B2i optimizing the value of the purpose driven industryjlsitler
The institutional market -- aka the .org, .gov and .edu segments -- are a thriving, growing and potentially highly profitable target market. But many firms quickly hit roadblocks as they attempt to use their typical business approach with institutional customers. You’ll need to adapt your marketing efforts, the way you conduct business and the manner in which you handle billing and payments to work with institutions
Indian CIOs continue to show increased interest in the cloud as SMBs take lead in deploying critical applications and infrastructure in the public cloud.
Critical Mission Support Achieved through Custom Procurement Solutionsjwchitwood
Federal government procurement policies are complex, stringent and increasingly require more transparency. Because government services are funded by taxpayer dollars, due diligence is a necessary component to ensure optimal and appropriate use of available funding. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant progress in adopting custom purchase and payment programs to help streamline complex procurement of commercial products and services. This paper will address the rationale and advantages behind custom purchase and payment program adoption and the options that should be considered to achieve further cost saving enhancements. It will address closed-loop, private procurement and payment solutions and why they are advantageous over traditional off-the-shelf solutions in specific industries in the domestic and overseas marketplace.
Critical Mission Support Achieved through Custom Procurement SolutionsElizabeth Benditt
Federal government procurement policies are complex, stringent and increasingly require more transparency. Because government services are funded by taxpayer dollars, due diligence is a necessary component to ensure optimal and appropriate use of available funding. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant progress in adopting custom purchase and payment programs to help streamline complex procurement of commercial products and services. This paper will address the rationale and advantages behind custom purchase and payment program adoption and the options that should be considered to achieve further cost saving enhancements. It will address closed-loop, private procurement and payment solutions and why they are advantageous over traditional off-the-shelf solutions in specific industries in the domestic and overseas marketplace.
Critical Mission Support Achieved through Custom Procurement SolutionsTed Green
Federal government procurement policies are complex, stringent and increasingly require more transparency. Because government services are funded by taxpayer dollars, due diligence is a necessary component to ensure optimal and appropriate use of available funding. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant progress in adopting custom purchase and payment programs to help streamline complex procurement of commercial products and services. This paper will address the rationale and advantages behind custom purchase and payment program adoption and the options that should be considered to achieve further cost saving enhancements. It will address closed-loop, private procurement and payment solutions and why they are advantageous over traditional off-the-shelf solutions in specific industries in the domestic and overseas marketplace.
Critical Mission Support Achieved through Custom Procurement Solutionsdarissa1
Federal government procurement policies are complex, stringent and increasingly require more transparency. Because government services are funded by taxpayer dollars, due diligence is a necessary component to ensure optimal and appropriate use of available funding. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant progress in adopting custom purchase and payment programs to help streamline complex procurement of commercial products and services. This paper will address the rationale and advantages behind custom purchase and payment program adoption and the options that should be considered to achieve further cost saving enhancements. It will address closed-loop, private procurement and payment solutions and why they are advantageous over traditional off-the-shelf solutions in specific industries in the domestic and overseas marketplace.
Critical mission support achieved through custom procurement solutionsColinWills
Federal government procurement policies are complex, stringent and increasingly require more transparency. Because government services are funded by taxpayer dollars, due diligence is a necessary component to ensure optimal and appropriate use of available funding. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant progress in adopting custom purchase and payment programs to help streamline complex procurement of commercial products and services. This paper will address the rationale and advantages behind custom purchase and payment program adoption and the options that should be considered to achieve further cost saving enhancements. It will address closed-loop, private procurement and payment solutions and why they are advantageous over traditional off-the-shelf solutions in specific industries in the domestic and overseas marketplace.
Critical Mission Support Achieved through Custom Procurement SolutionsJim Knickerbocker
Federal government procurement policies are complex, stringent and increasingly require more transparency. Because government services are funded by taxpayer dollars, due diligence is a necessary component to ensure optimal and appropriate use of available funding. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant progress in adopting custom purchase and payment programs to help streamline complex procurement of commercial products and services. This paper will address the rationale and advantages behind custom purchase and payment program adoption and the options that should be considered to achieve further cost saving enhancements. It will address closed-loop, private procurement and payment solutions and why they are advantageous over traditional off-the-shelf solutions in specific industries in the domestic and overseas marketplace.
Administrative Cost Savings through Invoice VerificationFred Kaffenberger
By incorporating strategic invoice verifications into the accounting process, an organization can significantly reduce the cost to process transactions and eliminate man-hours dedicated to invoice dispute and resolution. This paper discusses various types of automated invoice verification process, their purpose and the advantages stemming from a strategically implemented electronic payment program.
Administrative Cost Savings through Invoice Verificationsjlsitler
By incorporating strategic invoice verifications into the accounting process, an organization can significantly reduce the cost to process transactions and eliminate man-hours dedicated to invoice dispute and resolution. This paper discusses various types of automated invoice verification process, their purpose and the advantages stemming from a strategically implemented electronic payment program.
Administrative Cost Savings through Invoice VerificationsKit Acree
By incorporating strategic invoice verifications into the accounting process, an organization can significantly reduce the cost to process transactions and eliminate man-hours dedicated to invoice dispute and resolution. This paper discusses various types of automated invoice verification process, their purpose and the advantages stemming from a strategically implemented electronic payment program.
Administrative Cost Savings through Invoice VerificationsJim Knickerbocker
By incorporating strategic invoice verifications into the accounting process, an organization can significantly reduce the cost to process transactions and eliminate man-hours dedicated to invoice dispute and resolution. This paper discusses various types of automated invoice verification process, their purpose and the advantages stemming from a strategically implemented electronic payment program.
B2i optimizing the value of the purpose driven industryjlsitler
The institutional market -- aka the .org, .gov and .edu segments -- are a thriving, growing and potentially highly profitable target market. But many firms quickly hit roadblocks as they attempt to use their typical business approach with institutional customers. You’ll need to adapt your marketing efforts, the way you conduct business and the manner in which you handle billing and payments to work with institutions
Indian CIOs continue to show increased interest in the cloud as SMBs take lead in deploying critical applications and infrastructure in the public cloud.
Critical Mission Support Achieved through Custom Procurement Solutionsjwchitwood
Federal government procurement policies are complex, stringent and increasingly require more transparency. Because government services are funded by taxpayer dollars, due diligence is a necessary component to ensure optimal and appropriate use of available funding. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant progress in adopting custom purchase and payment programs to help streamline complex procurement of commercial products and services. This paper will address the rationale and advantages behind custom purchase and payment program adoption and the options that should be considered to achieve further cost saving enhancements. It will address closed-loop, private procurement and payment solutions and why they are advantageous over traditional off-the-shelf solutions in specific industries in the domestic and overseas marketplace.
Critical Mission Support Achieved through Custom Procurement SolutionsElizabeth Benditt
Federal government procurement policies are complex, stringent and increasingly require more transparency. Because government services are funded by taxpayer dollars, due diligence is a necessary component to ensure optimal and appropriate use of available funding. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant progress in adopting custom purchase and payment programs to help streamline complex procurement of commercial products and services. This paper will address the rationale and advantages behind custom purchase and payment program adoption and the options that should be considered to achieve further cost saving enhancements. It will address closed-loop, private procurement and payment solutions and why they are advantageous over traditional off-the-shelf solutions in specific industries in the domestic and overseas marketplace.
Critical Mission Support Achieved through Custom Procurement SolutionsTed Green
Federal government procurement policies are complex, stringent and increasingly require more transparency. Because government services are funded by taxpayer dollars, due diligence is a necessary component to ensure optimal and appropriate use of available funding. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant progress in adopting custom purchase and payment programs to help streamline complex procurement of commercial products and services. This paper will address the rationale and advantages behind custom purchase and payment program adoption and the options that should be considered to achieve further cost saving enhancements. It will address closed-loop, private procurement and payment solutions and why they are advantageous over traditional off-the-shelf solutions in specific industries in the domestic and overseas marketplace.
Critical Mission Support Achieved through Custom Procurement Solutionsdarissa1
Federal government procurement policies are complex, stringent and increasingly require more transparency. Because government services are funded by taxpayer dollars, due diligence is a necessary component to ensure optimal and appropriate use of available funding. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant progress in adopting custom purchase and payment programs to help streamline complex procurement of commercial products and services. This paper will address the rationale and advantages behind custom purchase and payment program adoption and the options that should be considered to achieve further cost saving enhancements. It will address closed-loop, private procurement and payment solutions and why they are advantageous over traditional off-the-shelf solutions in specific industries in the domestic and overseas marketplace.
Critical mission support achieved through custom procurement solutionsColinWills
Federal government procurement policies are complex, stringent and increasingly require more transparency. Because government services are funded by taxpayer dollars, due diligence is a necessary component to ensure optimal and appropriate use of available funding. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant progress in adopting custom purchase and payment programs to help streamline complex procurement of commercial products and services. This paper will address the rationale and advantages behind custom purchase and payment program adoption and the options that should be considered to achieve further cost saving enhancements. It will address closed-loop, private procurement and payment solutions and why they are advantageous over traditional off-the-shelf solutions in specific industries in the domestic and overseas marketplace.
Critical Mission Support Achieved through Custom Procurement SolutionsJim Knickerbocker
Federal government procurement policies are complex, stringent and increasingly require more transparency. Because government services are funded by taxpayer dollars, due diligence is a necessary component to ensure optimal and appropriate use of available funding. In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has made significant progress in adopting custom purchase and payment programs to help streamline complex procurement of commercial products and services. This paper will address the rationale and advantages behind custom purchase and payment program adoption and the options that should be considered to achieve further cost saving enhancements. It will address closed-loop, private procurement and payment solutions and why they are advantageous over traditional off-the-shelf solutions in specific industries in the domestic and overseas marketplace.
Administrative Cost Savings through Invoice VerificationFred Kaffenberger
By incorporating strategic invoice verifications into the accounting process, an organization can significantly reduce the cost to process transactions and eliminate man-hours dedicated to invoice dispute and resolution. This paper discusses various types of automated invoice verification process, their purpose and the advantages stemming from a strategically implemented electronic payment program.
Administrative Cost Savings through Invoice Verificationsjlsitler
By incorporating strategic invoice verifications into the accounting process, an organization can significantly reduce the cost to process transactions and eliminate man-hours dedicated to invoice dispute and resolution. This paper discusses various types of automated invoice verification process, their purpose and the advantages stemming from a strategically implemented electronic payment program.
Administrative Cost Savings through Invoice VerificationsKit Acree
By incorporating strategic invoice verifications into the accounting process, an organization can significantly reduce the cost to process transactions and eliminate man-hours dedicated to invoice dispute and resolution. This paper discusses various types of automated invoice verification process, their purpose and the advantages stemming from a strategically implemented electronic payment program.
Administrative Cost Savings through Invoice VerificationsJim Knickerbocker
By incorporating strategic invoice verifications into the accounting process, an organization can significantly reduce the cost to process transactions and eliminate man-hours dedicated to invoice dispute and resolution. This paper discusses various types of automated invoice verification process, their purpose and the advantages stemming from a strategically implemented electronic payment program.
Administrative Cost Savings Through Invoice VerificationMichele Urness
By incorporating strategic invoice verifications into the accounting process, an organization can significantly reduce the cost to process transactions and eliminate man-hours dedicated to invoice dispute and resolution. This paper discusses various types of automated invoice verification process, their purpose and the advantages stemming from a strategically implemented electronic payment program.
Administrative Cost Savings through Invoice Verificationsbmweber
By incorporating strategic invoice verifications into the accounting process, an organization can significantly reduce the cost to process transactions and eliminate man-hours dedicated to invoice dispute and resolution. This paper discusses various types of automated invoice verification process, their purpose and the advantages stemming from a strategically implemented electronic payment program.
Administrative Cost Savings through Invoice VerificationsTed Green
By incorporating strategic invoice verifications into the accounting process, an organization can significantly reduce the cost to process transactions and eliminate man-hours dedicated to invoice dispute and resolution. This paper discusses various types of automated invoice verification process, their purpose and the advantages stemming from a strategically implemented electronic payment program.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
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Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
1. Mitigating Fraud, Waste and Misuse within the Procurement Function A Case Study of P-Card Adoption within the U.S. Government
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3. The U.S. Government as a Case Study The U.S. Government was one of the earliest adopters of the P-Card. The program has grown exponentially since with approximately $17 billion in purchases in 2005 and an cost-savings of $1.2 billion annually. Executive order encourages “more efficient” small purchase procurement options Department of Commerce conducts pilot program General Services Administration assigned to management of PTF card programs National Performance review dubs P-card a “promising initiative Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act Federal Acquisition Reform Act Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government
4. Card Issuing and User Training In 2001 and 2002 the GAO identifies a significant portion of issued cards for which there was no transaction history (the cards had never been used) or there was no documentation justifying that the cardholder should need a purchasing card. As the result of these audits, several military agencies cut back their cardholders and implemented strict card issuance policies. Over a six-year period, total federal cardholders dropped from 586,000 to 357,000. 5 Limiting Risk
5. Card Issuing and User Training A study conducted in 2008 reviewed the stagnation of P-card use in the federal government as the result of new card issuance policies. Estimated cost savings that could have been achieved through additional cardholders and transactions during this six-year timeframe were estimated to be $5.4 billion. Rebate revenue left unearned over this time period was estimated at $26 million. 5 Optimizing Value
6. Card Issuing and User Training Ensuring that only the most appropriate employees are issued card / account responsibility limits financial exposure. However, new payment methods such as e-cards, virtual cards, and one-time use cards ensure that “casual” users have access to streamlined payment tools while agencies reap the benefit of administrative cost savings – without overexposure to risk. Formal training on appropriate use of the account and purchasing procedures should be conducted and documented for each cardholder . Finding the Balance
7. Purchase Controls / Purchase Authorization A 2002 audit of one federal department noted that 10 out of 14 offices studied disregarded the department’s purchasing policy requiring that all purchases of items over $1,000 be requested and approved in writing by an executive officer prior to purchase. 6 That same year, two employees within another department made repeated micro-purchases, adding up to over $121,000 in computer equipment. The total purchase clearly exceeding the cardholders’ established purchase limits and was deemed a misuse of the purchasing cards. 6 A 2008 audit of government wide purchasing card programs estimated that nearly 41% of the transactions sampled from 2005-2006 failed to show that the transaction was properly authorized and that an individual other than the cardholder signed for the item once the product was delivered. 9 With Convenience Comes Risk.
8. Purchase Controls / Purchase Authorization MCC Blocking in an Open-loop card program limits the type of companies a cardholder can purchase from based upon the company’s merchant category codes. Closed-loop card networks hand pick a select group of merchants with which a cardholder may conduct business (i.e. fuel stations, retail locations of a preferred supplier, parts and service shops). One government agency has implemented an order-to-payment e-procurement platform. Users are classified hierarchically and guided through the procurement process to ensure compliance with procurement policies. Zero instances of fraud have been identified on this system since launch. 7 Automating Controls.
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11. Monitoring Tools and Alerts Agencies are also able to develop exception alerts and reports, which call attention to purchases that may or may not have been made for approved government use (i.e. home furnishings, toys, cosmetics), been purchased from designated government sources, or obtained at excessive cost. Alerts may be prompted when indicators of split procurements such as sequential invoice numbers, receipts issued within specific time periods of one another, and sequential PO numbers for similar items purchased are present. Mitigating Risk.
12. Review and Approval A 2002 GAO audit reviewing 5 months of cardholder statements at one government department identified that 1 out of 3 statements had not been approved by the appropriate official. The unapproved statements totaled $1.8 million. Even after a new approval process was implemented, the GAO noted that officials were not ensuring that each statement was supported by adequate documentation. 6 Another agency had instituted a broad policy allowing the AO to presume that any transactions made were appropriate / authorized unless the AO was notified to the contrary by the cardholder. 6 Similarly, a 2010 audit of an additional agency noted that more than 75% of obligations allowed one official to act in two or more functions throughout the procurement function: request, authorization of purchase, recording the obligation of funds, verifying arrival of goods, and approving payment. 9 Catching the Excess.
13. Review and Approval In most of the above cases, it was found that AOs were overburdened by an excessive number of cardholder statements, leading to oversights within or a complete abandonment of appropriate approval policies. The GAO recommends a ratio of 5-7 cardholders to one approving official within a high-frequency transaction program. 6 For low-frequency, high-value transaction programs, a transaction-by-transaction approval process may be the best measure against inappropriate use of funds. One procurement agency implemented a fully-prompted e-procurement platform which prompts the approving official via email to review and approve transaction details prior to invoice submission to payables. This same system compiles supporting documentation for each transaction within the system, recording the competitive bidding process, sole-source justifications, purchase logs, object-class codes, invoices, MSDSs, etc. in an auditable trail for the AO’s review. Opportunity for Refinement.
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15. Visually, you can think of each step in the process as a filter, siphoning out inappropriate spending.
16. Resources 1 Palmer, Richard and Mehendra Gupta. 2010 Purchasing Card Benchmark Survey Results. MG Research Corporation. Rpmgresearch.net. 2 2010 AFP Payment Fraud and Control Survey. Report of Survey Results. 3 United States Department of Defense. Office of Inspector General. “ Fraud Indicators in Procurement and Other Defense Activities: Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Defined.” http://www.dodig.mil/inspections/apo/fraud/fraud_defined.html . 4 AGA Corporate Partner Advisory Research Group. The Federal Purchase Card: Use, Policy and Best Practice. AGA CPAG Research Series: Report No. 4. April 2006. 5 Palmer, Richard J., Mehendra Gupta and Rodney Dawson. U.S. Government Use of Commercial Card Technology: A Case for Change in Military Card Distribution Policy. Defense AR Journal. Volume 17, Number 3, Issue 55, July 2010. http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA523651&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf 6 Calbom, Linda M. United States GAO. Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives. Government Purchase Cards: Control Weaknesses Expose Agencies to Fraud and Abuse. May 1, 2002. 7 A Better Procurement Process. Multi Service Corporation. March 2010. http://www.multiservice.com/knowledge-center/thought-leadership/request-article.html?downloadArticleID=367 8 Multi Service Corporation (2010). Retrieved April, 2010.(Rack11D) Multi Service database. 9 Ragland, Susan. US GAO. Testimony Before the Committee on Veteran Affairs, House of Representatives, Department of Veteran Affairs: Longstanding Weaknesses in Miscellaneous Obligations and Financial Reporting Controls. July 2010. 10. Inspection and Evaluation Committee. A Practical Guide for Reviewing Government Purchase Card Programs. June 2002.
Editor's Notes
Multi Service is a global transaction management company, specializing in commercial billing and payment solutions. Specifically, Multi Service designs, implements and manages closed-loop net pay programs. The company was founded with a fuel card program in the trucking industry and, over the years, has expanded to service aviation, maritime and retail industries. Our entrepreneurial approach to business is two-fold: aggressively driving the company to new ideas and business opportunities while encouraging passionate involvement with our clients and within each industry vertical. Our mission is to understand our customers’ needs better than anyone else, so that we can function as problem solvers to deliver solutions and results.
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