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§11316 Accountability

Title 40 › SUBTITLE III — INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT › CHAPTER 113 — RESPONSIBILITY FOR ACQUISITIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY › SUBCHAPTER II — EXECUTIVE AGENCIES › § 11316

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Agency heads must work with their Chief Information Officer and Chief Financial Officer (or a similar official if there is no CFO) to set rules and steps that make sure accounting, financial, asset-management, and other information systems are built and used well to provide the data needed for the agency’s financial statements. The rules must make sure the data sent to financial management systems is reliable, consistent, and timely, and that the financial statements can be used to review and improve mission and administrative processes and to measure how well the agency’s investments in information systems are performing.

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Title 40, §11316

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The head of each executive agency, in consultation with the Chief Information Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of that executive agency (or, in the case of an executive agency without a chief financial officer, any comparable official), shall establish policies and procedures to ensure that—
(1)the accounting, financial, asset management, and other information systems of the executive agency are designed, developed, maintained, and used effectively to provide financial or program performance data for financial statements of the executive agency;
(2)financial and related program performance data are provided on a reliable, consistent, and timely basis to executive agency financial management systems; and
(3)financial statements support—
(A)assessments and revisions of mission-related processes and administrative processes of the executive agency; and
(B)measurement of the performance of investments made by the agency in information systems.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 1131640:1426.Pub. L. 104–106, div. E, title LI, § 5126, Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 686.

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40 U.S.C. § 11316

Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102