Government officials in charge must carefully oversee their subordinates to prevent loss of public money. If they fail to do so, they can be held personally responsible for the loss.

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Original Audit Finding Excerpt

"The head of any agency or instrumentality of the national government or any government-owned or controlled corporation and any other self-governing board or commission of the government shall exercise the diligence of a good father of a family in supervising accountable officers under his control to prevent the incurrence of loss of government funds or property, otherwise he shall be jointly and solidarily liable with the person primarily accountable therefore. The treasurer of the local government unit shall likewise exercise the same degree of supervision over accountable officers under his supervision otherwise he shall be jointly and solidarily liable with them for the loss of government funds or property under their control."

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