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094473 1 (1969-06-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacujk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 094473 Address by the Comptroller General of the United States, Elmer B. Staats, at the 18th Annual National Symposium and Exposition of the Federal Government Accountants Association, Washington, D. C., June 9, 1969 THE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SCENE, 19693 We are meeting at a time when the need for greater understanding of the importance of improved financial management to the Federal Government probably was never greater. The demands upon the Govern- ment for more effective and expanding services in nearly every area of our society probably have never been heavier and these demands, large as they are, are certain to increase in the years immediately ahead. Our system of apportioning the tax dollar--our system, in other words, of determining priorities--is being questioned by articulate groups in and out of Washington. Across the Government, from the White House to the Congress, there is increasing awareness that improved financial management is needed--and urgently needed. All of this, of course, is not news to you members of the Federal Government Accountants Association. You are deeply enmeshed every day in these matters. Most of you know what the problems are, what the needs are for solving them, and what the more obvious difficulties are that must be surmounted. Most of these problems, needs, and difficulties come under the broad heading that I will call the financial management scene, 1969. Financial management is at the I-JL4&4rlc

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