Leadership Challenges Given Today's Fiscal Realities

GAO-10-652CG Published: Apr 19, 2010. Publicly Released: Apr 19, 2010.

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This is an Acting Comptroller General Presentation delivered to the Association of Government Accountants in Washington, DC on April 23, 2010. Major topics of this presentation include: long-term fiscal challenges, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act implementation, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act experience, and examples of the need for transformation.

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