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Download full textBarba, J. David – 1995
The results of a Colorado State audit of the consolidated financial statements are reported, along with the statements of appropriations, expenditures, transfers and reversions for state-funded Student Financial Assistance Programs for the four State Colleges in Colorado for the year ended June 30, 1995. Specific recommendations are given for each…
Descriptors: Athletics, Financial Audits, Financial Policy, Higher Education
Mangan, Katherine S. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Many graduate students receiving stipends for research or teaching are being audited by the Internal Revenue Service. The situation is puzzling and angering administrators because the stipends have previously been considered tax-exempt. (MSE)
Descriptors: Costs, Federal Government, Financial Audits, Graduate Students
Big Financial Problems Can Beset Colleges that Fail Education Dept. Audits of Student-Aid Practices.
Wilson, Robin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
In almost half of the Department of Education's biennial audits of colleges receiving federal financial aid, institutions are found to have made mistakes in aid distribution, and each year the department asks colleges to return $25-million in aid money. Better oversight methods are urged. (MSE)
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Financial Audits, Financial Problems, Higher Education
Jaschik, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
The Internal Revenue Service has acknowledged that audits of graduate students receiving stipends were based on inconsistent interpretations of tax law but deny any policy to increase monitoring of graduate students' tax returns. (MSE)
Descriptors: Federal Government, Federal Regulation, Financial Audits, Graduate Students
Wilson, Robin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
The House Postsecondary Education Subcommittee called hearings to give higher education officials a chance to respond to accusations that colleges are greedy and spend as much as they can. Program duplication, tax breaks for parents, tuition increases, and a call for college audits are discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Colleges, Costs, Educational Finance
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. General Government Div. – 1988
This document presents an audit of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. The following aspects were examined: (1) compliance with the requirements of Public Law 100-202, which imposes hiring regulations; (2) regional offices; (3) civil rights monitoring; (4) consultants; (5) temporary employees; (6) mission-related external services…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Agency Cooperation, Budgeting, Civil Rights
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1997
The United States spends more than $500 billion a year on education at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels. State, local, and private expenditures account for over 90 percent of the spending, and agencies of the federal government contribute less than 10 percent. This report highlights the U.S. Department of Education's current…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgets, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1993
This report presents the results of an audit of the Principal Financial Statements of the Department of Education's Federal Family Education Loan Program and its internal controls and compliance with laws and regulations for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1992. The report details the following findings: (1) the Statement of Cash Flows were…
Descriptors: Audits (Verification), Compliance (Legal), Efficiency, Federal Aid
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Proposed National Collegiate Athletic Association rules changes concern Presidents' Commission grouping, academic standards and transfer, financial aid, amateurism, championships and extra events, drug testing, administrative regulation, financial audits, coaches' outside compensation, voting privileges, membership and classification, enforcement,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Athletic Coaches, Classification, College Athletics
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1993
This report presents the results of a U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) review of lender and Department of Education controls over the accuracy of lender-submitted quarterly billings under the Federal Family Education Loan Program, also known as the guaranteed student loan program. It reports that both lenders and the Department of Education…
Descriptors: Accountability, Accounting, Administrative Problems, Data Collection
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1991
This report presents information on what changes might strengthen the Department of Education's role as the "gatekeeper" for approving schools before their students can receive federal student aid. The review focuses on the proprietary (for profit) school sector. The report shows that adequate controls are not in place within the Department of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Certification, College Outcomes Assessment, Colleges
