21st Century Challenges: The Need for Integrity and Stewardship

This is a Comptroller General Presentation given to the Lyceum: University of Texas McCombs School of Business in Austin, Texas on September 7, 2005. Major topics of this presentation include: accountability breakdowns, composition of federal spending, federal spending for mandatory and discretionary programs, composition of spending as a share of GDP, selected federal government reporting challenges, and the way forward.