Budgets

Accounting gimmicks may be needed to keep the federal government from defaulting.

The administration is looking for big money from a higher corporate tax rate and better IRS enforcement.

There's a lot more to think about than just organizing their financial reports and getting their bills paid.

Given the turbulence of the past year, agility should be at the forefront of our minds when building a budget and strategy for 2021.

The better planned the job is, the better organized it is and the better it gets done.

The number of countries reporting their financial positions on an accrual basis is expected to increase from 37 to 98 by 2023, according to a new report.

Argentina may be in deep financial trouble, but its central bank is comfortably back in the black — thanks to a small accounting maneuver.

The $284.7 million budget is an approximately 4 percent increase over 2019.

Move to a rolling forecast, and spend more time relaxing.

A city task force has restored nearly $40 million in unreconciled cash accounts that was driven largely by duplicate debt service entries.

House Republicans unveiled a 2019 budget proposal Tuesday to send a message to their core supporters that repealing Obamacare, cutting taxes and partially privatizing Medicare remain high on their agenda.

Lawmakers are on the cusp of settling on a $1.3 trillion bill to avoid a government shutdown this weekend after reaching compromises on a fix to the tax law and other issues.

I speak to a lot of CFOs who are bumping up against the constraints of spreadsheets for building and maintaining their annual budgets.

President Trump signed into law H.R. 1892, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, just hours after the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 71-28 and the House by a margin of 240-186 this month.

President Trump just signed and enacted a two-year budget bill that extends government funding through March 23 and also retroactively extends numerous tax breaks that had previously expired.

President Donald Trump signed a two-year budget agreement that will boost federal spending by almost $300 billion and suspend the debt ceiling for a year, ending a brief partial government shutdown that began at midnight when lawmakers missed a funding deadline.

Republicans are on the brink of passing the most extensive rewrite of the U.S. tax code in more than 30 years—but it’s not yet clear when President Donald Trump will actually sign the bill.

A faction of conservative Republicans is raising warnings about federal spending, two weeks after backing tax-cut legislation that would raise federal deficits by $1 trillion over the next decade.

The top two Democratic leaders in Congress pulled out of a meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he tweeted that a budget deal with them was unlikely, raising the odds that the U.S. government will partially shut down next week.

Budget plans should be treated as living documents that provide guidance and direction, and are updated and adjusted as actual results unfold. How do finance teams get there?