It's waste vs. cost in the transparency debate
Technical fixes that automate some aspects of financial reporting could lower the compliance burden, officials said.
There are some technical steps officials could take to make reporting less burdensome for recipients of federal stimulus money, such as auto-filling more parts of the electronic spending form, reducing the number of data fields and adding auto-editing programs that spot common mistakes such as incorrect ZIP codes, government watchdogs said Wednesday. Read the whole story at Nextgov.com.
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