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Current Budgeting Developments:
President's budget for FY 2008.
Congressional Budget Office's
assessments:
Options and
Outlook.
President's
Economic Report. |
Status of appropriations:
Library of Congress updates as Congress acts. Information available
for FY
2008 (ends September 30, 2008), and links for years 1998 to 2007. |
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The House. |
The
Senate. |
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Office of Management and Budget
Circulars,
A-11 (budget preparation and
execution) for FY 2009 budget process,
A-130
(information technology),
A-94 (cost-benefit analysis).
Memoranda and
bulletins. |
Federal deficit
Daily history of the Federal debt,
Bureau of the Public Debt,
summary of Treasury securities outstanding.
Projections by the
Congressional
Budget Office (Administration's projections are part of the
budget materials).
Social Security funding. |
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President's budget
for FY
2007 as presented by OMB.
FY 2007 and earlier
years available at the GPO archives.
Economic Report of the President. |
Federal Government:
U.S. Government Manual,
GPO Access,
FirstGov.gov
portal |
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Finding Laws
Current bills
at Thomas.
Research the US Code, with cross references (best for newer
laws).
Browse current (2000) edition of US Code or
search the US Code (good for older material). Cornell
provides the
US Code by title and sections. |
Performance
management
Meeting President's agenda,
scorecard, and "getting to green," the E-Gov strategy,
GPRA
and the
Senate report on GPRA,
PART for FY 2005. |
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Associations:
AABPA,
GFOA,
AGA,
NASBO |
Competitive Sourcing
Circular A-76 |
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Accounting Standards:
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GASB,
FASB |
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Cost estimation models,
parametric
estimating handbook,
Federal inflation
factors (March 2003) |
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
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The
Principles of Appropriations Law (five large PDF files) are
accessible from the
legal products page.
Recent GAO
interpretations may change appropriations law.
(Changed name from General Accounting Office.) |
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as career:
Profession
described in Occupational Outlook Handbook,
Federal position classifications |
Treasury's Financial Management Service: Treasury
Financial Manual,
Standard Government Ledger (USSGL) |
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