He exercises General Staff supervision over Chief, United States Army Audit Agency.
The comptroller of the Army is under the direction and supervision of, and is directly responsible to, the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management), for financial management matters, by delegation of the Secretary of the Army, with concurrent responsibility to the Chief of Staff.
[1] The last person to hold this position was Lt. Gen. Merle Freitag until his retirement in 1994.
After his retirement, the office was abolished and the position was combined with the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management).
After that, the position was renamed the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller).