GAO Revising the Green Book Standards for Internal Control
Posted on February 11, 2014
[Update (9/26/2014): The 2014 revision of the Green Book has now been issued. Read about it here.]
Internal controls are the plans, methods, policies, and procedures organizations use to ensure that they are using their resources most effectively. GAO publishes Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government (also known as the “Green Book”), which sets the internal control standards for federal agencies. Because we issued the most recent Green Book in 1999, we recognized the need to update the standards to address the ways the federal government has changed since then. We published a draft of the revised Green Book for review (the Exposure Draft) in September 2013. In addition, we established the Green Book Advisory Council to get opinions on the revisions from members of the intended user community of the Green Book.
There are many ways to stay connected with the Green Book update:
- Visit the revised Green Book website
- Read the Green Book Exposure Draft
- Listen to the Green Book podcast
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