Anticipating and Meeting Accountability Challenges

This is a Comptroller General Presentation delivered to the International Consortium on Governmental Financial Management on February 4, 2015. Major topics of this presentation include: (1) threats confronting U.S. national security interests, (2) fiscal sustainability and debt challenges, (3) changing dynamics of global interdependence and multilateral cooperation, (4) advances in science and technology, (5) communications networks and information technology, (6) shifting roles in government and governance, and (7) demographic and societal Changes confronting young and old.