This question, Mr. Chairman, goes a little bit beyond the scope of this particular chapter. As you know, we did another status report in the spring on financial management and control, which I would be pleased to discuss with this committee should it choose to have a hearing on it.
In that area, there have been improvements, but it's not as dramatic as it is, frankly, in the area of internal audit. I think there are still significant challenges, as outlined in that other report, to strengthening financial management in government. That's still a work in progress. I think there are significant challenges there.
Some of the recent accomplishments of the government in this area, though, are, again, the professionalization of the function--the requirement that the chief financial officers of the large departments have the necessary requisite professional qualifications. The majority of those chief financial officers are now professional accountants. That was not the case some time ago.
But in the area of strengthening financial management in government, I believe there is a considerable amount of work that needs to be done.