Inspectors General

Compliance With Professional Standards by the Transportation Inspector General Gao ID: AFMD-87-28 August 10, 1987

In response to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Office of Inspector General (OIG) to determine whether the Inspector General conducted audits and investigations in accordance with generally accepted standards.

GAO found that the DOT Inspector General: (1) complied with 19 of the 23 audit and investigation standards it tested; (2) needed to take corrective action to ensure satisfactory compliance with audit standards on evidence, reporting, supervision, and quality assurance; (3) developed policies to ensure that the OIG staff had an awareness and understanding of professional standards, but some of the policies were inadequate; (4) did not always have adequate audit quality processes to alert management to problems which could impact work quality and effectiveness; and (5) did not track all audit report recommendations through the implementation of corrective actions. GAO also found that the DOT semiannual reports show dollar findings that differ from those shown in the corresponding audit reports.

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