B-282441 Page 32 GAO/AIMD-00-76 IRS’ Fiscal Year 1999 Financial Statements statement of net cost starting with plans and reports for fiscal year 1999. However, we found that IRS cannot report reliable cost-based performance measures relating to its various programs in accordance with the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993. Objectives, Scope, and Methodology Management is responsible for (1) preparing the annual financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles, (2) establishing, maintaining, and assessing internal controls to provide reasonable assurance that the broad control objectives of FIA are met, and (3) complying with applicable laws and regulations and FFMIA requirements. We are responsible for obtaining reasonable assurance about whether (1) the financial statements are presented fairly, in all material respects, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and (2) internal accounting and financial reporting controls are effectively designed and operating to achieve the following control objectives established under FIA and OMB Circular A-123, Management Accountability and Control : • Financial reporting—transactions are properly recorded, processed, and summarized to permit the preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and safeguarding of assets against loss from unauthorized acquisition, use, and disposition. • Compliance with laws and regulations—transactions are executed in accordance with laws governing the use of budget authority and with other laws and regulations that could have a direct and material effect on the financial statements and any other applicable laws, regulations, and governmentwide policies identified by OMB in Bulletin 98-08, appendix C, as amended. We are also responsible for testing compliance with selected provisions of laws and regulations that have a direct and material effect on the statements; with laws for which OMB Bulletin 98-08, as amended, requires testing; and with FFMIA requirements. Additionally, we are responsible for performing limited procedures with respect to certain other information appearing in these annual financial statements. Except as discussed above, in order to fulfill these responsibilities, we (1) examined, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, (2) assessed theaccounting This is trial version www.adultpdf.com . whether (1) the financial statements are presented fairly, in all material respects, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and (2) internal accounting and financial reporting. recorded, processed, and summarized to permit the preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and safeguarding of assets against loss from unauthorized. conformity with generally accepted accounting principles, (2) establishing, maintaining, and assessing internal controls to provide reasonable assurance that the broad control objectives of FIA are