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Crossing Your T's and Dotting Your I's

By  Zach Behrens
Published Feb 22, 2010 11:00 PM
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When a City Controller does an audit, the results are usually scathing, finding millions in waste. Today, Wendy Greuel announced that an audit of purchasing controls within Los Angeles' Supply Management System (SMS), where $500 million is spent on goods, was "working well." She still, however, found a few loopholes: "126 City employees with SMS access rights have been terminated from the City, and more than 50 individuals have duplicate SMS user IDs," she pointed out, adding that "some employees share SMS User IDs." Both could leave the city susceptible to wasteful spending.

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