Fiscal Year 2009 Performance and Accountability Report
Published November 16, 2009
Highlights for the Citizen
The Highlights is based on the full PAR and communicates the Department’s most important performance results, financial statements, and other information in an easy-to-read format. This document will be available no later than February 15th.
Published Reports:
- Fiscal Year 2009
- Fiscal Year 2008 Archive (25.mb) and Highlights (6.42mb)
- Fiscal Year 2007 Archive (20.6mb) and Highlights (3.29mb)
- Fiscal Year 2006 Archive (16.7mb)
- Fiscal Year 2005 Archive (3.62mb)
- Fiscal Year 2004 Archive (2.32mb)
- Fiscal Year 2003 Archive (7.12mb)
- Fiscal Year 2002 Archive (2.81mb)
- Fiscal Year 2001 Archive (707kb)
- Fiscal Year 2000 Archive (1.31mb)
The above archive files are zipped (compressed) files of previous years’ reports.
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Purpose of the Report
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) provides results on VA’s progress towards providing America’s Veterans with the best in benefits and health care.
The PAR contains FY 2009 performance targets and results achieved against those targets during FY 2009. As such, the PAR is VA’s report card and, in this context, strives to communicate to you, the American people, how well VA has done, the tangible public benefits VA has produced, and the forward-looking strategies we are employing to achieve and maintain excellence.
| PAR Cover (159kb) | Secretary’s Letter (77kb) | Executive Summary (925kb) | Web Access Page (998kb) | Table of Contents (TOC) (692kb) |
- Performance Scorecard (761kb)
- Department Overview (1.97mb)
- Performance Overview (757mb)
- Cost to Achieve Performance Goals (1.02mb)
- Performance Summaries by Strategic Goal (4.32mb)
- Most Important Achievements and Current Challenges (997kb)
- Transformation 21 Initiatives (844kb)
- The Recovery Act (1.95mb)
- Performance Shortfall Analysis (850kb)
- Financial Highlights (852kb)
- Management Controls, Systems, and Compliance with Laws and Regulations (1.76mb)
- VA Snapshot (846kb)
- Performance Summaries by Strategic Objective (1.14mb)
- Strategic Goal 1 – Restoration and Improved Quality of Life for Disabled Veterans (3.09mb)
- Strategic Goal 2 – Smooth Transition to Civilian Life (1.95mb)
- Strategic Goal 3 – Honoring, Serving, and Memorializing Veterans (4.63mb)
- Strategic Goal 4 – Contributing to the Nation’s Well-Being (2.51mb)
- The Enabling Goal – Applying Sound Business Principles (4.07mb)
- Assessment of Data Quality (1.09kb)
- Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) Quality Assurance Program (Millennium Act) (840kb)
- Key Measures Data Table (975kb)
- Performance Measures by Organization and Program (1.31mb)
- Major Management Challenges — Office of Inspector General (OIG) (3.59mb)
- High-Risk Areas — Government Accountability Office (GAO) (1.52mb)
- VA Snapshot (599kb)
- Letter from the Chief Financial Officer (799kb)
- Consolidated Financial Statements (882kb)
— Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (2.25mb) - Independent Auditors’ Report (3.12mb)
- Required Supplementary Stewardship Information (Unaudited) (878kb)
- Required Supplementary Information (Unaudited) (709kb)
- VA Snapshot (918mb)
- Summary of Financial Statement Audit and Management Assurances (717kb)
- Improper Payments Information Act Reporting Details (1.28mb)
- Definitions (1.47mb)
- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms (730kb)
- Key Report Officials (728kb)
Full PAR in one consolidated file (48mb)
NOTE: In the near future, the FY 2009 PAR will be broken out into smaller PDF files.
For additional information about the Office of Inspector General’s reports and studies (including the Major Management Challenges shown in the Performance and Accountability Report (PAR)), please access the OIG’s homepage at: http://www.va.gov/oig/.
Questions should be directed to VA’s Office of Budget at (202) 461-6630.