I think leadership is key, but the way you are really going to get results is if you hold people accountable.
And again, coming from the private sector, you are never going to get an unqualified opinion if you do not have prior ye...
I want to go to a statement that Senator Tester talked about, whether the Department of Defense is too big to be audited...
Well, not to beat a dead horse, but once you start doing it, they will be accountable and they will get into line.
Again, I understand. The accounting department is going to have to account for it in some way.
There is one other area I want to talk about, because a number of people have mentioned how disruptive the government sh...
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We need to work hard with the Congress and the President to make sure it does not.
I am talking about accountability up front to maintain and keep the process in control.
Certainly in public companies, they have the necessary pressure.
The first charge of the Congress is to defend the country.
I mean, it should be a requirement.
Is part of the problem there because as those systems are systemwide and they become massive, it becomes pretty difficul...
How can that be? Tell me about that.
Get off of this idea that we are not going to conduct an audit until we know we are going to have a clean audit, and ins...
The sooner we do it, the better, from my standpoint.
I would rather spend money on the audit, realize what a disaster a particular unit is, or how successful a particular un...
You need to use the audit as a tool.
