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Ron Johnson: “The goal of an audit is to provide management information.”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Johnson at HSGAC

Published | Video Starts at 08:33

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to just go back to the discussion of the goal of what we should be looking at in terms of an audit. Again, from my standpoint, The goal of an audit is to provide management information. And what I'm hearing, maybe I'm making an incorrect assumption here, is the goal is in terms of Department of Defense, is get audit ready so that when you conduct an audit, it's going to be a clean audit. (08:33–08:37)

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