Multiple Agencies
An Audit Report on Performance Measures at 36 State Entities - Phase 12 of the Performance Measures Reviews
May 1998
Report Number 98-040
Overall Conclusion
Seventy-five percent of the 150 performance measures reviewed during Phase 12 are reliable. Seventy percent of performance measures are accurate based on the cumulative results of the last five audits. While this is an improvement over the results of the first series of audits, 30 percent of performance information cannot be relied upon by decision-makers.
Although performance measurement controls have gradually improved, control weaknesses continue to prevent a higher reliability rate. A greater emphasis on review procedures by management could help prevent and detect errors.
Key Facts and Findings
- During this audit, 16 entities achieved 100 percent reliability. These agencies deserve special recognition:
- General Land Office
- Natural Resource Conservation Commission
- Treasury Department - Comptroller's Office
- Texas Education Agency
- Real Estate Commission & Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board
- Texas A&M University Health Science Center
- Office of Public Insurance Counsel
- The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
- Board of Professional Engineers
- Texas Transportation Institute
- Cosmetology Commission
- Sam Houston State University
- Board of Nurse Examiners
- Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
- Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Authority
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
- Twenty-one percent of the measures reviewed during Phase 12 were inaccurate. Factors prevented us from determining whether the remaining 4 percent were accurate or inaccurate.
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