Transition Series
Treasury Issues Gao ID: OCG-89-17TR November 1, 1988GAO summarized information on issues relating to the management of the Department of the Treasury.
GAO noted that challenges facing the Secretary of the Treasury and the administration include: (1) restoring stability to the troubled financial service industry; (2) formulating economic policies to address the trade deficit; (3) ensuring financial management reform; (4) managing Treasury's critical information technology needs; (5) addressing Treasury's serious internal control problems; and (6) working with the new presidentially appointed inspector general for the Treasury.