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Conference Travel

STATE OIG: Audit of the Department of State Travel Card Program  Artboard 1

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

DOT OIG: DOT’s Conference Spending Policies Reflect Federal Requirements, but Ineffective Controls Do Not Ensure Compliance Artboard 1

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  Artboard 1

  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  Artboard 1

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 Artboard 1

  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  Artboard 1

  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  Artboard 1

  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  Artboard 1

  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

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