The Governmental Accounting Standards Board is getting ready to roll out new rules and proposals for state and local governments, including improvements to the financial reporting model, ...

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board is juggling a variety of projects to improve accounting for state and local governments as they come under pressure from the threat of reduced funding from ...

As workers search for better opportunities and the demand for public sector workers continues to increase, accounting professionals working in the private sector should consider whether switching to a ...

S&P Global Ratings recently withdrew its credit ratings on 64 local governments after they failed to file financial updates on time because of staff shortages and delayed audits. Nearly 150 such ...

How the program helped her career: “I spent about a year and a half at the start of my career in private industry. What I found when I came to the Office of Budget and Management was that government ...

“The Master’s in Governmental Accounting at Rutgers looked too perfect for me,” Catherine Sykes said to herself. “I must be missing something.” She dug deeper into the program. “I checked that it was ...

We all know how important it is that auditors maintain their independence. But at times, understanding and applying the rules can be challenging (see the sidebar, “How Pandemic Funding Could Impact ...

Governmental accounting and capital management represent critical areas of public financial administration, focused on the systematic tracking, reporting and strategic oversight of capital assets and ...