Summary

Auditing and Advising in a Time of Transition

GAO-08-842CG  May 21, 2008

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This is a Comptroller General Presentation delivered to the 17th Biennial Forum of Government Auditors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 21, 2008. Major topics of this presentation include: upcoming presidential transitions and GAO's role, GAO's evolving strategy to serve the Congress and the Nation, emergency preparedness and homeland defense, the new FEMA, and public health system and pandemic planning.

Subject Terms

Audit oversight
Auditing procedures
Budget activities
Budget deficit
Cost analysis
Cost control
Critical infrastructure protection
Deficit reduction
Economic analysis
Emergency preparedness
Federal debt
Financial analysis
Financial management
Fiscal policies
Homeland security
Organizational change
Pandemic
Policy evaluation
Presidential transition
Public health
Strategic planning
Terrorism
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