Sunshine Review:Government accounting project

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The government accounting project will look into re-formatting the state budget articles as well as detailing the accounting principles in each state.

Contents

[edit] Article components

2008/2009 crisis

  • A large part of each of our state budget articles are outdated and included 2008/2009 specific budget information. This information needs to be slimmed down and moved to an article titled: [[STATE state budget (2008-2009)]]

Accounting principles

A section needs to be created detailing the current accounting principles in the state. This will need to address:

  • Important deadlines
  • Account principles including: general provisions, tax collections and tax allocation.
  • Department in charge of accounting and its leadership
  • Accountability checklist
  • Remember to change the rating number on the top depending on how many question are answered with a "Yes"
  • To know what makes up each point visit this article: Government accounting principles

Audits

  • Information on what audits are
  • Who is audited every year
  • Who is in charge of audits
  • When are department audited?

[edit] Sample text for state budget article

Reformat introduction to include more basic components of what makes up the budget and it's deadlines.  
Current information on the total budget and when it was reported.

==Budget crisis==
(Write synopsis of budget crisis)
* ''See also: [[STATE state budget (2008-2009)]] and [[State budget crisis, 2009-2010]]''

==Accounting principles==
{{Accounting transparency checklist |
 ARating                   = {{ARating2}} |
 Comprehensive             = {{No}} |
 Timeliness                = {{Partial}} |
 Balanced budget           = {{Yes}} |
 Usability                 = {{Yes}} |
}}

==Audits==

[edit] Sample text for 2009 archive

STATE faced a '''financial crisis''' in the 2008-2009 fiscal year.  (copy info from intro paragraph)

==Impact of budget woes==

==Ideas about why the crisis exists==

==Proposed actions==
===Governor===

===Republicans===

===Democrats===

==References==
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{{State budgets}}
{{Alabama}}

[[category:STATE]]
[[Category:Government spending]]
[[category:state salary]]

[edit] Resources

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