Thirteen clean audits in a row.
A department assembled in 2003 from twenty-two legacy agencies has earned an unmodified (clean) financial-audit opinion every year for over a decade. The largest federal department has never earned one. The difference is whether financial data traces, reliably, from a recorded transaction back to its source — the discipline a clean opinion requires, and the discipline this monitor practices.
The audit record
Why this monitor
A multi-year clean-opinion streak proves the standard is reachable for a sprawling, multi-component department — when financial data can be traced from a recorded transaction back to its authorization. Every figure on this monitor resolves to a published source and recomputes against the budget's own arithmetic — each organization's appropriations to its published net discretionary subtotal, both topline dimensions reconciling to the grand total, the net base kept strictly separate from gross and from the Disaster Relief Fund. That is the same data discipline a clean opinion demands, demonstrated on the public record.
Sources are linked at each node. The clean-opinion record is drawn from the DHS OIG independent auditor's reports and the DHS Agency Financial Report; the DoD contrast is drawn from DoD's own audit press releases and GAO's High-Risk List.