tailieunhanh - AUDIT OF DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CONFERENCE PLANNING AND FOOD AND BEVERAGE COSTS

SAIs also face widely varying situations regarding the extent of the discretion that they have in the use of available audit resources. Some have almost total discretion in selecting which audits to perform and when to perform them. Others are constrained by requirements in law to perform certain audits, such as an annual audit of the execution of the state budget. Results may need to be delivered by a specified date that may consume a substantial portion of the available audit resources, at least during certain periods of the year. Nevertheless, all SAIs need. | Audit of Department of Justice Conference planning and food and Beverage Costs . Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General Audit Division Audit Report 11-43 Originally Issued September 2011 Revised Version Issued October 2011 . Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General Washington . 20530 Preface to the Revised Report This revised report supersedes the original version of the Office of the Inspector General s OIG report Audit of Department of Justice Conference Planning and Food and Beverage Costs Audit Report 11-43 published in September 2011. The original report which examined event planning and food and beverage costs at 10 Department of Justice the Department conferences between October 2007 and September 2009 contained a discussion of costs for food and beverages purchased for an Executive Office for Immigration Review EOIR conference at the Capital Hilton in Washington . in August 2009. Among other things the report concluded that the EOIR had spent 4 200 for 250 muffins or 16 per muffin a finding that brought significant negative publicity to the Department and the Capital Hilton. After publication of the report we received additional documents and information concerning the food and beverage costs at the EOIR conference. After further review of the newly provided documentation and information and after discussions with the Capital Hilton and the Department we determined that our initial conclusions concerning the itemized costs of refreshments at the EOIR conference were incorrect and that the Department did not pay 16 per muffin. We have therefore revised the report based on these additional documents and deleted references to any incorrect costs. We regret the error in our original report. Finally we hope that our correction of the record for this 1 conference among the 10 conferences we reviewed does not detract from the more significant conclusion in our report government conference expenditures must be managed .