Service Monographs of the United States Government, Issue 46Brookings Institution, 1927 - United States |
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28 Stat 42 Stat Accounting Act Accounting Office accounts and claims Accounts Section administrative examination appointed appropriations Assistant Chief Assistant Comptroller Attorney Audit Clerk authority Bookkeeping and Warrants Budget and Accounting Bureau charged checks Chief Clerk Chief of Division Chief of Section Civil Service Claims Adjuster Commission Commissioner committee Comp concerned Cong Congress contracts control accounts Court customs decisions departments and establishments dept direction disbursing officers Division of Bookkeeping Division of Law duties employees executive departments Executive Officer expenditures fiscal officers funds investigations jurisdiction legislation ment methods Miscellaneous money-order Navy Department Operator organization payment personnel Post Office Department postal postmasters procedure public accounts receipts receive recommendations records responsible revenue Review Revised Statutes salaries Second Comptroller Secretary Section Chief Senate sess settlement and adjustment six auditors Solicitor Stenographic supervision tion transferred Treas Treasury Department troller Unit Unit Head vouchers
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Page 14 - States, as may be by law required of him ; to make report, and give information, to either branch of the legislature, in person or in writing, (as he may be required), respecting all matters referred to him by the senate or house of representatives, or which shall appertain to his office ; and, generally, to perform all such* services relative to the finances, as lie shall be directed to perform.
Page 64 - The Comptroller General shall prescribe the forms, systems, and procedure for administrative appropriation and fund accounting in the several departments and establishments, and for the administrative examination of fiscal officers' accounts and claims against the United States.
Page 183 - The balances which may from time to time be credited by the Auditors to the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants, or to the PostmasterGeneral, upon the settlements of public accounts, shall be final and conclusive upon the Executive Branch of the Government...
Page 115 - The Comptroller General shall investigate, at the seat of government or elsewhere, all matters relating to the receipt, disbursement, and application of public funds...
Page 94 - All claims and demands whatever by the Government of the United States or against it, and all accounts whatever in which the Government of the United States is concerned, either as debtor or creditor, shall be settled and adjusted in the General Accounting Office.
Page v - THE INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT RESEARCH STUDIES IN ADMINISTRATION. The System of Financial Administration of Great Britain. By WF Willoughby, WW Willoughby, and SM Lindsay. 378 pp.
Page 65 - All departments and establishments shall furnish to the Comptroller General such information regarding the powers, duties, activities, organization, financial transactions, and methods of business of their respective offices as he may from time to time require of them ; and the Comptroller General, or any of his assistants or employees, when duly authorized by him, shall, for the purpose of securing such information, have access to and the right to examine any books, documents, papers, or records...
Page 155 - They differ from those outlines, however, in that whereas the Commission's report showed only organization units, the presentation herein has been carried far enough to show the personnel embraced in each organization unit. These outlines are of value not merely as an effective means of making known the organization of the several services. If kept revised to date by the services, they constitute exceedingly important tools of administration.
Page 65 - No witness is privileged to refuse to testify to any fact, or to produce any paper, respecting which he shall be examined by either house of congress, or by any committee of either house, upon the ground that his testimony to such fact or his production of such paper may tend to disgrace him or otherwise render him infamous.
Page 189 - Office, containing recommendations concerning the legislation he may deem necessary to facilitate the prompt and accurate rendition and settlement of accounts and concerning such other matters relating to the receipt, disbursement, and application of public funds as he may think advisable. In such regular report, or in special reports at any time when Congress is in session, he shall make recommendations looking to greater economy or efficiency in public expenditures.