Word: audits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparently unprecedented action by federal officials yesterday, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) released the full text of a preliminary draft audit recommending the return of $2.5 million "improperly charged" to federal grants at the School of Public Health...
...remember the last time a draft of an audit like this was released," John Blamphin, an HEW spokesman, said last night. He said HEW decided to release the report in response to the request of a Congressional committee and to partial news accounts about the audit which appeared in the national press this week...
Harvard revealed in a news release Tuesday that the audit recommends the return of $2.5 million and that auditors questioned $15 million in salaries allegedly recorded improperly in the school's accounts. But the University did not release the text of the audit...
Throughout the audit, HEW officials charge Harvard with sloppy bookkeeping and insufficient supervision of expenditures...
...payroll distribution system and related internal controls was not in compliance with federal regulations," the 60-page audit states, adding, "and the system that was used and currently in use does not provide reasonable assurance that direct costs for the personal services of professorial and other professional staff were either proper or reasonable...