America's Financial Condition and Fiscal Imbalance
Table of contents
- America's Financial Condition and Fiscal Imbalance
- GAO's Strategic Plan
- Selected Key Concepts for GAO
- Four Key Institutional Success Elements
- GAO's High Risk List
- The Case for Change
- Composition of Federal Spending
- Federal Spending for Mandatory and Discretionary Programs
- Debt Held by the Public as Share of GDP (Fiscal Years 1797-2003)
- Surplus or Deficit as a Share of GDP (Fiscal Years 1797-2003)
- Surplus or Deficit as a Share of GDP (Fiscal Years 1962-2004)
- Selected Fiscal Exposures: Sources and Examples
- Another Way to Think About These Numbers
- Composition of Spending as a Share of GDP Under Baseline Extended
- Composition of Spending as a Share of GDP Assuming Discretionary Spending Grows with GDP after 2004
- Composition of Spending as a Share of GDP Assuming All Expiring Tax Provisions are Extended
- Composition of Spending as a Share of GDP Assuming Discretionary Spending Grows with GDP After 2004 and All Expiring Tax Provisions Are Extended
- Current Fiscal Policy Is Unsustainable
- The Way Forward
- Long-term Fiscal Challenges Demand New Metrics, Mechanisms, and Processes
- Improved Metrics, Measures and Processes: Some Ideas
- We Need a 3-Pronged Approach
- Selected GAO-Related Activities
- Accountability Environment
- Current Reforms
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act Provisions with Implications for Government
- Excerpts From the 103rd American Assembly Report: The Future of the Accounting Profession
- Rebuilding Public Trust
- GAO's Work to Modernize the Accountability Profession
- Selected Federal Government Reporting Challenges
- The Future Accounting/Reporting and Audit Reporting Model
- Future Accounting/Reporting and Audit Reporting Model
- Key Concepts in the Accountability Profession
- Three Key Personal Attributes Needed for These Challenging and Changing Times
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