Originally Posted by bkcunningham1

I have very limited experience in accounting and budgets. Two big life lesson I experiences was as a naive reporter were accrual accounting and a separate incident involving a paid private accountant doing a fiscal year-end-report for a government entity who said, regarding their deficit, "How do you want it to look? I can make it look anyway you want it to look." Believe me, the Associated press picked up my little story from a county of just under 50,000 at the time.

You, and other posters have vast more knowledge of the budget and discussions pertaining to it than I do, thus my reluctance to post on this particular thread. That being said, I am trying to educate myself.

What do you think of the information on these websites?



http://www.americanprogress.org/issu...l_with_it.html



http://www.federalbudget.com/