Anticipating and Meeting Accountability Challenges in 2014 and Beyond

This is a Comptroller General Presentation delivered to the 20th Biennial Forum of Government Auditors, in Denver, CO, on August 20, 2014. Major topics of this presentation include: (1) threats confornting U.S. national security interest; (2) fiscal sustainability and debt challenges; (3) changing dynamics of global interdependence and multilateral cooperation; (4) science and technology trends; (5) advances in communications networks and information technologies; (6) shifting roles in governance and government; and (7) demographic and societal changes.