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Accompany the Office of

Inspector General Semiannual

Report to Congress

FOR THE PERIOD OCTOBER 1, 2024 THROUGH MARCH 31, 2025

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Accompany the Office of

Inspector General Semiannual

Report to Congress

October 1, 2024 – March 31, 2025

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he Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended (Inspector General Act), requires the

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to transmit to the appropriate committees or

subcommittees of the U.S. Congress a Management Report, containing certain statistical

tables and any comments deemed appropriate, to accompany the Office of Inspector

General’s (OIG’s) Semiannual Report.1 This Management Report presents the required

information for the reporting period of October 1, 2024, through March 31, 2025.

I. Overview of SEC Audit Follow-up Activities

The SEC is committed to timely completion of corrective actions on OIG audit, inspection, and

evaluation recommendations. At the commencement of this semiannual reporting period, there

were 26 open OIG recommendations. During the period, management succeeded in obtaining

OIG concurrence to close 19 recommendations. Of the 19 closed recommendations,

management submitted 15 (or 79 percent) requests for closure in less than one year. The SEC

also received three new OIG reports during the reporting period, one of which contained no

recommendations and two of which contained a combined total of 15 recommendations for

improving the agency’s processes and programs. At period-end, final action was pending on 22

recommendations from five reports.

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The SEC’s Management Response is based on the requirements of the Inspector General Act as amended by the James M. Inhofe National

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, Pub. L. No. 117-263, § 5273, Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 2395, 3241.

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II. Reports on Instances of Whistleblower Retaliation

The Inspector General Act requires the SEC Management Report to include a statement with respect

to any settlement agreement entered into by the agency with an official found by the Inspector

General to have engaged in retaliation against a whistleblower. The SEC has no such settlement

agreements to report.

III. Reports with Monetary Savings

The Inspector General Act requires the SEC Management Report to include statistical information

regarding any management decision or final action taken on each audit, inspection, or evaluation

report on which final action had not been taken before the reporting period. The information

required to be reported includes the dollar value of any “disallowed cost” or “recommendation that

funds be put to better use.”

The Inspector General Act defines a “disallowed cost” as a cost questioned by the OIG that agency

management has decided should not be charged to the agency. The Inspector General Act defines

“recommendation that funds be put to better use” to mean an OIG recommendation that funds could

be used more efficiently if management took actions to implement and complete the accompanying

recommendation. During the reporting period, OIG did not issue a report that contained any

questioned costs or any recommendations that funds be put to better use. In addition, there are no

outstanding management decisions on questioned costs or recommendations that funds be put to

better use identified in OIG reports from prior reporting periods.

Additional information regarding management decisions and final actions taken during the reporting

period for reports on which final action had not been taken before the reporting period began is

included below in the next section and Table 1.

IV. Reports with Pending Corrective Action

The Inspector General Act requires the SEC Management Report to include a statement with

respect to each audit, inspection, and evaluation report on which a management decision has been

made but final action has not been taken. Table 1 presents the required information.

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TABLE 1. REPORTS PENDING FINAL ACTION AT START OF REPORTING PERIOD

(REPORTING PERIOD OCTOBER 1, 2024, THROUGH MARCH 31, 2025)

Report No./Title

For the 5 Reports with Pending

Final Action at Start of Period

Report Date

Status of Final Action

(Final Action Completed: 2 Reports

Pending at End of Period: 3 Reports)

11/15/2022

Twelve of the report’s 13 recommendations have

been closed with OIG concurrence. Corrective

action addressing the remaining recommendation

is in progress, with anticipated completion by fall

2025.

12/20/2023

Three of the report’s six recommendations have

been closed with OIG concurrence. Corrective

actions addressing the remaining three

recommendations are complete and supporting

documentation has been submitted to the OIG for

closure.

Report 581: Opportunities

Exist to Strengthen the SEC's

Office of Equal Employment

Opportunity Programs and

Operations

1/29/2024

Final action taken during reporting period.

Report 582: The SEC Missed

Opportunities to Lower

Contract Risk and More

Effectively Manage Time-andMaterials Contracts

8/26/2024

Final action taken during reporting period.

Report 574: Fiscal Year 2022

Independent Evaluation of the

SEC’s Implementation of the

Federal Information Security

Modernization Act of 2014

Report 580: Fiscal Year 2023

Independent Evaluation of the

SEC’s Implementation of the

Federal Information Security

Modernization Act of 2014

Report 583: Enhanced

Planning, Performance

Measurement and Evaluation,

and Information Can Improve

Oversight of Broker-Dealer

Examinations

9/23/2024

Two of the report’s six recommendations have

been closed with OIG concurrence. Corrective

actions addressing the remaining four

recommendations are in progress, with anticipated

completion by fall 2025.

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All management decisions for the listed reports were made during prior reporting periods. For the

two reports listed in Table 1 for which final action was taken during the reporting period, none of the

reports involved any questioned costs or recommendations that funds be put to better use.

The Inspector General Act states that a report may be excluded from the list of reports pending final

action if (i) a management decision was made on that report within the preceding year or (ii) the

report is under formal administrative or judicial appeal or management has decided to pursue a

legislative solution. In this report, the SEC did not exclude any such reports from this list.

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