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Audit of NRC's Purchase Card Program

Report Information

Date Issued
Report Number
OIG-11-A-13
Report Type
Audit
Joint Report
No
Agency Wide
Yes (agency-wide)
Questioned Costs
$0
Funds for Better Use
$0
View report on Oversight.gov

Recommendations

Issue periodic reminders to cardholders and approving officials to reiterate the requirements for closing accounts, tagging property, and increasing spending limits.

Update the NRC Purchase Card Handbook to include more clear examples of split transactions and a detailed definition and examples of miscellaneous expenses in the discussion of convenience checks.

Revise the purchase card training course to incorporate more clear examples of split transactions and a detailed definition and examples of miscellaneous expenses in the discussion of convenience checks.

Document procedures requiring (1) the continuous monitoring of NRC purchase card transactions to assess whether split transactions are occurring and convenience checks are being used improperly and (2) follow up with NRC offices that are not following the agency’s requirements.

Develop desk procedures for agency Purchase Card Program management to ensure complete records of purchase cardholder and designated check writer information.