OIG found that travel card holders did not always obtain cash advances in accordance with Department regulations. Specifically, OIG identified 255 travel card holders who obtained 2,051 cash advances, valued … READ MORE
Conference Travel
DOT OIG: DOT’s Conference Spending Policies Reflect Federal Requirements, but Ineffective Controls Do Not Ensure Compliance
The Department of Transportation has not established clear guidance for identifying, tracking, and reporting conference activity and, for the period OIG reviewed, did not report all reportable conferences.7 As a result, … READ MORE
HHS OIG: HHS Agencies Did Not Accurately Report Some Conference Costs For Fiscal Year 2012
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies did not accurately report on the Department's Web site conference costs for the four conferences covered by our audit. For these … READ MORE
VA OIG: Audit of Conference Management for Fiscal Year 2014
VA organizations did not comply with policy for 11 of 12 randomly selected FY 2014 conferences. VA organizations did not prepare Conference Packages in accordance with policy for 10 conferences … READ MORE
EPA OIG: EPA’s Tracking and Reporting of Its Conference Costs Need Improvement
According to the EPA, it spent $11,315,047 on 227 hosted or sponsored conferences that had costs exceeding $20,000 during fiscal year (FY) 2014. After OIG randomly sampled eight conferences … READ MORE
GAO: Further DOD and DOE Actions Needed to Provide Timely Conference Decisions and Analyze Risks from Changes in Participation
Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Energy (DOE) officials cited reduced attendance at science and technology (S&T) conferences by scientists and engineers since DOD and DOE implemented their … READ MORE
DOC OIG: Manufacturing Extension Partnership Incurred Avoidable Conference Costs
Since 2006, NIST MEP has hosted an annual conference in Orlando to help MEP Centers learn about the latest tools, services, best practices, and strategies to advance the innovation … READ MORE
DOC OIG: Quarterly Conference Reporting Processes Need Improvement
In the Department’s first confer- ence spending report to OIG, five bureaus reported 24 conferences, totaling over $1.7 million, in the first quarter of FY 2012. The bureaus over- and … READ MORE