Office of the Secretary Internal Controls for Purchase Card Transactions Need to Be Strengthened.

摘要

In fiscal year (FY) 2011, Department of Commerce staff used 4,515 purchase cards for 265,423 transactions, spending $118,628,549. In September 2011, we began this audit on transactions initiated during FY 2011. We selected approximately 850 transactions for testing through a stratified random sample, ensuring that transactions from all bureaus were included and that results could be projected to the entire Department. We also projected bureau-specific results for the Census Bureau, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and National Institute of Standards and Technology, because those bureaus represented the largest users of purchase cards.