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What does AP stand for?

Approving Official


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Samples in periodicals archive:
Recommendation: The Director of Finance at Commission headquarters should instruct and monitor approving officials to ensure that expenditure transactions are dated when goods and services are received and approved before payment is made.
Document approval records did not include the document approval dates or signatures for the approving official.
Next, "records of changes did not include a description of the change, identification of the affected documents, the signature of the approving officials, the approval date and when the change becomes effective," the report noted.
They should also be responsible for approving officials who provide the daily oversight for the program, assuring that the contract terms are fulfilled by both the organization and the card providers, and regularly reviewing p-card provider services, rebidding the contract when appropriate.
Expense vouchers are filed electronically subsequent to completion of travel and routed to proper approving officials.
The GAO recommended to Congress that the Air Force reduce the number of cards; minimize purchase limits; establish training courses for cardholders and officials who approve purchases; and hold cardholders and approving officials accountable for misuse of cards.
Earlier, the Treasury's head of central accountancy, David Loweth, told MPs the reduction of the ``big five'' to the ``big four'' raised competition issues which needed to be considered by the Competition Commission: ``It will either be ministers making the referral or approving officials to make the referral,'' he told the Commons Treasury Select Committee.
With the establishment of certifying officers within DoD, pecuniary liability under the Purchase Card Program was transferred from the disbursing officer to the approving official.

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