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Business Modernization: NASA's Challenges in Managing Its Integrated Financial Management Program

PublisherGovernment Accountability Office
Format192.9KB PDFDate added21 Nov 2003
Topics Enterprise Architecture, Performance Budgeting and Management, Financial Management
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NASA's latest effort to develop and implement an integrated financial management system has been driven by an aggressive schedule - not by requirements, available resources, and strategic planning. Without a mature enterprise architecture to rationalize IFMP's implementation schedule and reliable life-cycle cost estimates to ensure program efficiency, NASA is creating a system that may lack the functionality to achieve its intended goal: to provide accurate and timely financial data needed to manage NASA's programs and account for the billions of dollars the agency spends annually on work performed by its contractors.

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