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  • Value [1] Accountability
    • Accountability describes the nature of GAO’s work. GAO helps oversee federal programs and operations to enhance the economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and credibility of the federal government.

  • Value [2] Integrity
    • Integrity describes the high standards GAO sets for conducting its work. The agency takes a professional, objective, fact-based, nonpartisan, nonideological, fair, and balanced approach to all of its activities.

  • Value [3] Reliability
    • Reliability describes GAO’s goal for how its work is viewed. The agency produces high-quality reports, testimony, legal opinions, and other services that are timely, accurate, useful, clear, and candid.