FMFIA Annual Assurance Process -- Long Description
FY 2005 Performance and Accountability Report
Bureau of Resource Management
November 2005
Report
The diagram shows the three principal steps involving the issuance by the Secretary of State of the FMFIA Annual Statement of Assurance:
Based on information gathered from knowledge of day-to-day operations, management program reviews and OIG and GAO audits and other management initiated evaluations, individual assurance statements are provided in August by Ambassadors assigned overseas and from Assistant Secretaries in Washington, DC.
From these assurance statements, in September the Management Control Steering Committee makes the determination on the adequacy of management controls.
In November, based on the Management Control Steering Committee's recommendatons, the Secretary of State issues the Department's Annual Statement of Assurance.
