Pentagon’s longstanding audit failures also pose a recruiting challenge
By Jared Serbu | @jserbuWFED
July 27, 2020 7:25 am
As part of its efforts to get itself on a firmer financial management footing, the Pentagon wants to infuse its accounting workforce with new blood. But imagine trying to run a recruiting campaign when most of the candidates you’re targeting suspect your organization is a hopeless cause.
That’s about the size of the challenge the Defense Department faces as it works to replace the growing cadre of retirement-eligible senior civil servants in its financial management workforce with new personnel who might be able to help the Pentagon finally earn a clean opinion on its financial statement audit.
Thirty years after the passage of the CFO Act, DoD’s longstanding failure to get a clean audit opinion hasn’t just earned it unending flak from Congress — it’s also created a perception problem in the rest of the federal financial management community that department leaders are now, fairly openly, trying to overcome.
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