Off Balance Sheet, Out of Mind

The U.S Treasury's Financial Management Service recently released its monthly Statement of Receipts and Outlays for the United States Government.

For the first time ever, the Treasury reported a deficit above $1 trillion -- $1.086 trillion, and that’s with three big-spending months left to go in the current fiscal year.
To put things in perspective, the reported federal deficit for all of 2008 was $455 billion. At the time, that was a ... Full Story »

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by Fabrice Florin - Aug. 5, 2009

Interesting observations about the U.S. Treasury's recent report of a $1 trillion deficit for the first 9 months of this fiscal year. The author makes a reasonable case that government financials would be more accurate if it used an accrual method, rather than its current cash accounting method - as commonly done for large companies. It would be helpful if this article presented opposing viewpoints on this issue, to provide more context.

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