BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government is using "accounting tricks" to meet NATO's 2% military spending target in 2024, Spiegel news magazine said on Friday, citing evidence from an internal finance ...

When he describes a fundamental truth of pension accounting universally accepted by economists, Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute achieves an elegant explanation: “A guaranteed ...

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The Federal Government is planning to adopt the International Public Sector Accounting Standard (ISPAS) accrual basis in 2015. The measure is aimed at protecting its fixed assets and check corruption, ...

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Nearly every public and private business entity — across all levels of government, small and large businesses and major accounting firms (such as KPMG, EY, Deloitte and PwC) — employs finance ...

Following recurring confusion over who should be the accounting officer, indications emerged yesterday that the Federal Government may ask its agencies to invoke Section 160 of the 1999 Constitution ...

The federal budget deficit for fiscal 2007 would actually have been 69% higher than the White House projected in October if the government had used the same accrual accounting methods used by U.S.

SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt said today, ”We have had far too many financial and accounting failures.” “The commission cannot, and in any event will not, tolerate this pattern of growing restatements, ...