Ethical Quandaries
This type of financial disclosure, filed on OGE Form 278, is publicly available if requested.
What is Public Financial Disclosure?
This Act establishes a Code of Fair Information Practices to safeguard personal information held by executive branch federal agencies.
What is the Privacy Act of 1974?
This type of appropriation has obligational authority available until all funds have been expended.
What is no-year appropriation?
This is the first step a manager must take regarding travel prior to an employee's trip.
What is approve travel?
This is the first thing an employee should do for any facility issue, emergency or routine.
What is contact your local facility supervisor or manager?
This type of financial disclosure, filed on OGE Form 450, is not publicly available and is for GS-15 (or equivalent) and below.
What is Confidential Financial Disclosure?
Under the Privacy Act, employees are responsible for safeguarding personally identifiable records against unauthorized access, such as keeping hard copy files under this.
What is lock and key?
The OIG receives funds from the Postal Service via transfer to this type of account.
What is an OIG Treasury account?
When reviewing per diem, the start date of per diem must match the first day listed in this.
What is the Report Name (based on the Trip Start Date)?
When an employee is onboarding, this checklist must be completed for all new hires.
What is an Employee On-Board Checklist?
The review process for financial disclosures compares an employee's assets and debts against their duties to identify potential conflicts of interest or this.
What are impartiality concerns?
This Act ensures an informed citizenry and holds governors accountable, emphasizing that official information shedding light on an agency's performance of its statutory duties falls within its purpose.
What is the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)?
This system is used by the OIG Budget team to manage the budget and approve procurement requests.
What is Procurement 360 (P360)?
If a credit was issued for a portion of airfare, the traveler must itemize the original expense and mark the credited amount with this checkbox.
What is "Personal (do not reimburse me)"?
For employee offboarding, HQ monitors can be left on the desk, but field monitors should be reassigned to this pending reassignment.
Who is the manager?
This common pitfall phrase is used to justify actions by claiming everyone else is doing it.
What is "Everyone else is doing it"?
Agencies have this many working days to find, review records, and respond to a statutory FOIA request.
What are 20 working days?
When an unfunded initiative is approved, the Budget team will do this to the component's budget.
What is transfer the funding?
When reviewing hotel receipts, approvers must verify that the room rate per diem claimed does not exceed this for the destination of the trip.
What is the allowed lodging rate?
When an employee is onboarding, they will be assigned one monitor, but additional monitors may be requested by the manager with justification to this helpdesk.
What is the CIO Helpdesk?
When seeking guidance on ethical dilemmas, employees are encouraged to do this early and often.
What is "Ask questions"?
The FOIA office advises employees to be careful what they put in writing because there is no such thing as this exemption.
What is the "no embarrassment exemption"?
This is the second Monday of February each fiscal year when the OIG must submit a congressional budget justification document to Congress.
What is for inclusion in the President's budget?
This is the specific type of mileage expense that should be used for privately owned automobiles used for government travel.
What is Privately Owned Automobile – Government Vehicle?
This is the process of collecting assets from employees prior to their exit.
What is Employee Off-Boarding?