> officials found that the department couldn’t account for about 61 percent of its assets.

> McCord said the department has made progress toward a “clean” audit in the past year, but later added “we failed to get an ‘A.’...I would not say that we flunked.

Good to know that by US government standards, a 61% is an acceptable passing grade...

They would make more progress if we only gave them the money they can account for.