office were the IWWETOK Officerss Open Mess, ENImTOK NCO open ~ss~
Central Post Fund, Island Wine Steward’s Fund, Protestant Chaphti
Fund, and Catholic Ctiplain Fund.
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The auditor acts as the advisor to all non-appropriated
fund custodians on matters of accounting principles and.theory with
a view to insuring neat, correct, and properly documented and recorded accounting records. To monitor the audit program for this
command and to obtain this goal required the full tine of one
qualified audit specialist.
b.

Fiscal Section: The interim period work load was con-

stant with very little change in fiscal requirements. However, the
build-up and operational periods irqosed a very great increase with
the number of obligation transactions steadily rising during the reporting period. This steady increase is quite normal for the cumlative periods shown. Ebcpendituresgreatly decreased during the period
of 1 July 1955 through31 bce:~ber1955 and then inc=sed

~~ing

the period 1 January 1956 through 30 June 1956 in an abn~~l
misleading xannero37

and

This is attributed to the fact that the Con-

ptroller!sOffice was without proper guidance during the period of
Decenber 1955 through the first klf

of April 1956 due to the ab-

sence of a Comptroller @ysically assigned to do this job. Secondly,
billings were slow in arriving at this station dut to the long delays
in processing requisitions at CON-E Depots, These two factors COmbined created a practically insurmountable work load until the newlr
assigned Comptroller arrived in April 1956 and was able to overcome
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