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Date March 21, 1986 Report No. RCED-86-113FS Title

Science, Space, and Technology: A Profile of Selected Firms Awarded Small Business Innovation Research Funds

United States Genekl Accbunting Office 3384.7 Fact Sheet for the Chairman, Subcommittee on General.Oversight and the Economy, Committee on Smz& Business House of Representatives March 1986 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ‘A Profile of Selected Firms Awarded Small Business Innovation Research Funds -j ,. ..” .,... __,,........._... I... . ~.. -- ..-. .-- -, . .._..... ^.-. --. ~-“.--- t 1 ‘ I . / ...
Date June 6, 1984 Report No. 124314 Title

Financial Management: Floating Exchange Rates and the Dollar

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY EXPECTED at 11:00 a.m. June 6, 1984 STATEMENT OF ALLAN I, MENDELOWITZ ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DIVISION BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AND MONETARY POLICY SENATE COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS ON ill Illlll b lllllll 124314 FLOATING EXCHANGE RAT...
Date Dec. 28, 1983 Report No. 123420 Title

[Marginal Tax Rates on Earnings of Factor Inputs: Estimates for Five OECD Nations]

P - t i . L.4 j 27437 llllll llllllllllll I 1 l 123420 M R I A TAX RATES ON EARNINGS OF FACTOR INPUTS: A GN L ESTIMATES FOR FIVE OECD NATIONS William 6 . Shear U.S. General Accounting Office George S. To’lley Un i vers it y o f C h i ca go This paper i s i o be presented a t the ASSA Meetings under the Society f o r Government Economists on December Zd, 1983, i n San Francisco. This research was...
Date Sept. 2, 1983 Report No. NSIAD-83-34 Title

Financial Management: Examination of the Panama Canal Commission's Financial Statements for the Years Ended September 30, 1982 and 1981

BY THECOMPTROLLERGENERAL Report ToThe Congress OF THEUNITEDSTATES Examination Of The Panama Canal Commission’s Financial Statements For The Years Ended September 30,1982 And 1981 GAO examined the financial statements of the Panama Canal Commission for the years ended September 30, 1982 and 1981. The examination was made in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. In GAO...
Date Nov. 18, 1982 Report No. PAD-83-2 Title

Budget and Spending: Effective Planning and Budgeting Practices Can Help Arrest the Nation's Deteriorating Public Infrastructure

BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL Report To The Committee On Environment And Public Works United States Senate ~OF THE UNITEDSTATES Effective Planning And Budgeting Can Help Arrest The Nation’s Deteriorating Public Infrastructure Despite billions of dollars invested in State and local highways, bridges, and water supply and sanitation plants, many of these faciltties are becoming seriously deteriorated...
Date Oct. 13, 1982 Report No. PAD-83-10 Title

Financial Management: Congressional Attention Is Warranted When User Charges or Other Policy Changes Cause Capital Losses

l BY THE U.S.GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Report To The Honorable Berkley U.S. House Of Representatives Bedell Congressional Attention Is Warranted When User Charges Or Other Policy Changes Cause Capital Losses Using a case study, GAO modeled how capital losses (diminished asset values) can result from increases in user charges. In this case, GAO demonstrates how farmland values decrease as the price...
Date June 24, 1981 Report No. ID-81-48 Title

International Affairs: To Be Self-Sufficient or Competitive? Eximbank Needs Congressional Guidance

Report ToThe congress OF THEUNITEDSTATES i 1 1 To E3e Self-Sufficient Or Competitive? Eximbank Needs Congressional Guidance The financial condition of the Export-Import Bank of the United States is deteriorating. Eximbank has been attempting to match the financing terms of its foreign competitors in a period of unusually high domestic interest rates. As a result, Eximbank’s average borrow- I ing...
Date March 3, 1981 Report No. PAD-81-32 Title

Budget and Spending: The Federal Investment in Amtrak's Assets Should Be Secured

. 4, REPORTBY THE Comptroller General OF THE UNITEDSTATES The Federal Investment In Amtrak’s Assets Should Be Secured As of fiscal year 1980, the Federal Government had given Amtrak $3.2 billion for its capital program. Only $2.5 billion of this &mount is subject to Federal security arrangements; that is, this part of the Government’s investment would be protected should Amtrak be liquidated. ...
Date Feb. 26, 1981 Report No. PAD-81-19 Title

Federal Capital Budgeting: A Collection of Haphazard Practices

f--734 BY THECOMPTROLLERGENERAL /‘s, ly%i6 Report ToThe Congress OF THEUNITEDSTATES Federal Capital Budgeting: A Collection Of Haphazard Practices Funds for developing and maintaining physical capital--roads, bridges, airports, computers--are often cut to reduce expenditures. The Federal Government needs to pay special attention to planning, budgeting, and managing such assets because decisions ...
Date Jan. 19, 1981 Report No. ID-81-22 Title

Financial Management: Opinion on the Financial Statements of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Fiscal Years 1980 and 1979

F El-201607 To the Board of Ekirectors Overseas Private Investment Corporation We have examined the balance sheets of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation as of September 30, 1980 and 1979, and-the related statements of income, changes in capiand changes in financial position for the tal and reservefs, Our examinations were made pursuant to the years then ended. Gavernment Corporation Cantr...
Date Nov. 12, 1980 Report No. 113882 Title

Government Operations: Reversing the Decline in American Productivity

REMARKS OF ELMER B. STAATS COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES BEFORE THE SECOND ANNUAL HONEYWELL CAD/CAM WORKSHOP RADISSON SOUTH HOTEL MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 'REVERSING THE DECLINE IN AMERICAN PRODUCTIVITY' I am very pleased to participate in the Second Annual z NOVEMBER 12, 1980 s - Honeywell CAD/CAM Conference and discuss my views on productivity. I consider the productivity problem to be ...
Date Sept. 23, 1980 Report No. PAD-80-24 Title

Government Operations: An Analytical Framework for Federal Policies and Programs Influencing Capital Formation in the United States

BY THECOMPTROLLERGENERAL Report To The Congress OF THEUNITED STATES An Analytical Framework For Federal --. ~Policies And Prbgrams Influencing Capital Formatibn In The United States Capital formation is an essential part of economic growth. Job creation and productivity depend on it. The slowdown in capital formation and the capital to labor ratio in the 1970s are matters of great concern. Their l...
Date June 23, 1980 Report No. EMD-80-75 Title

Energy: Construction Work in Progress Issue Needs Improved Regulatory Response for Utilities and Consumers

II iWJ f&q/j REPORT BY THE THE UNITED -’ Comptroller Genera Construction Work In Progress Issue Needs Improved Regulatory Response For Utilities And Consumers As of late 1979, 33 State public utilit missions and the Federal Energy Reg Commission were allowing privately 0 electric companies to include construe work in progress in the rate base for estab ing utility rates. Critics of this policy c...
Date June 11, 1980 Report No. 112559 Title

Science, Space, and Technology: Space Industrialization Act of 1980

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY 10:00 A. M. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1980 STATEMENT OF DONALD L. SCANTLEBURY DIRECTOR FINANCIAL AND GENERAL MANAGEMENTSTUDIES DIVISION BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON TEE1 SPACE INDUSTRIALIZATION INTRODUCTION Mr. Chairman, the ...
Date June 5, 1980 Report No. ID-80-45 Title

International Affairs: Examination of Financial Statements of Overseas Private Investment Corporation, FY 1979 and 1978

COMf=TROJAER GENERAL WAsHINOTOu OP tPlE UNITED D.C. ZOSM rirATES B-197701 JUNE 5,198O Speaker of the House of Representatives examination of financial Investment Corporation required by the Government 841 et. seq.). Attached is our report on the statements of the Overseas Private for fiscal years 1979 and 1978, as Corporation Control Act (31 U.S.C. We are sending copies of this report to the Direc...
Date May 5, 1980 Report No. GGD-80-47 Title

Financial Management: Audit of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Fund for the Year Ended September 30, 1979

BY THECOMl’TROLLER &NEl?AL ‘Report Tii The .mngres OF THEUNITEDSTATES .’ J Audit Of The Bureau Of Engraving And Printing Fund For The Year Ended September 3OJ979 The financial statements of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing fund present fairly its financial position at September 30, 1979, and the results of its operations and changes in its financial position for the year then ended. 1122...
Date May 31, 1978 Report No. LCD-78-314 Title

National Defense: Maintaining Excess Capacity in DOD Industrial Reserve Facilities Costs the Government Millions of Dollars a Year

DOCUBENT RBSUME 06102 - [ B1526563 1 [Maintaining Bxcess Caiacity in DOD Industrial Reserve Facilities Costs the Government Billions of Dollars a fear]. LCD-78-314; B-140389. say 31, 1976. 8 pp. Report to Secretary, Department of Defense; by 9cbert G. Rothuell (for Fred J. Shafer, Director, Logistics and Communications Div.). Issue Area: Facilities and material Management (700). contact: Logistics...
Date May 18, 1978 Report No. FGMSD-78-37 Title

Financial Management: Use of Letters of Credit for Payments to Defense Contractors

DOCUEIIT RESU!E 05960 - (B14264Z8] lUse of Letters of Credit for Payments to Defense Cot-tractors]. FGISD-78-37; B-39995. lay 18, 1978. 7 pp. Report to Arthur Schoenhaut, Executive Secretary, Cost Accounting Standards Board; by D. L. Scantlebury, Director, Financial and General Lanagemeut Studies Div. Issue Area: Accounting and Financial RoportiDn (2800); Accounting and Financial Reporting: Sound ...
Date Sept. 2, 1977 Report No. 103667 Title

Transportation: Response to Civil Aeronautics Board Request for Information in Relation to Investigation of Possible Influence by Financial Institutions on Management of Air Carriers

DOCUMENT RESUME 03667 A26!3836] [Response to Civil Aeronautics Board Request for Information in Relaticn to Investigation of Possible Influence by Financial Institutions on anagement of Air Carriers]. Septezber 2, 1977. 3 pp. Report to Stephan P. Carrier, Bureau Counsel, Civil Aerorautics Board: ureau of Operating Rights; by Dean K. Crowther (for Harry S. Havens, Director, Program Analysis Div.). ...
Date May 11, 1977 Report No. 089012 Title

Government Operations: Survey of Canal Zone Organization's Fiscal Year 1977--Capital Investment Program

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE INTERNATIONAL LATIN AMERICAN E/o AMERICAN OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR DIVISION BRANCH EMBASSY Box2016, BALBOA,~ANAL ZONE May 11, 1977 Mr Walter D BJorseth Flnanclal Vice President Panama Canal Company Balboa Heights, Canal Zone Dear Mr BJorseth The General Accounting Offlce has completed a survey of the Canal Organlzatlon's fiscal year 1977 Capital Investment Pro...
Date May 11, 1977 Report No. 102191 Title

Financial Management: Survey of the Canal Zone Organization's Fiscal Year 1977 Capital Investment Program

UNITEDSTATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFricE 1NTEFtNATlONAL LATIN DIVISION BRANCH % Ah?zRlCIN EM-V AMERICAN BOX~O~~.BALBOA,CANALZONE May 11, 1977 Mr. Nalter D. Bjorseth Financial Vice President Panama Canal Company Balbca Heights, Canal Zone Dear Mr. Bjorseth: The General Accounting Office has completed a survey of the Canal Organization's fiscal year 1977 Capital Investment Program. Thz survc; ovdluate...
Date May 10, 1977 Report No. GGD-77-39 Title

Financial Management: Misuse of Unexpended Capital Outlay Fund Balances

DCCU.EN!T 02176 - PESUME [.1392382J 'Ialances. SGD-'77-39; l.uahbia; by misdse of Unexpended Capi+tal Outlay Funt B-118638. May 10, 1977. 19 pp. of Report to Walter E. Washington, Rayor, Distr.:. Victor L. Lowe. Director, General Government Div. issue Area: Facilities and Materiai .anacemernt (700). Contact: qeneral Government Div. Budget Function: R-evenue Sharing and ;eneral Purpose Fiscal OtheL...
Date March 7, 1977 Report No. FOD-76-22 Title

Financial Management: Examination of Financial Statements Bureau of Engraving and Printing Fund for Fiscal Years 1974 and 1975 Shows Need for Statutory Authority to Increase Capitalization

DOCUNBIT RESUE 00287 - [A0891554] Exanination of Financial Statements Bureau of Engraving and Printing Fund for Fiscal Years 1974 and 1975 Shows Need for Statutory Authority to Increase Capitalization. FOD-76-22; 2 appendices (4 pp.). arch 7, 1977. 19 pp. B-114801. Report to the General. on;ress; by Rotert 'l. Keller, Acting Comptroller ccounting and Financial Reporting (2800). Issue Area: CoLtact...
Date Dec. 2, 1976 Report No. PSAD-77-16 Title

Transportation: Suggested Reporting Formats for WMATA Bus and Rail Operations

.. . -- -- --~___-- _- _ _ . . . . _-_- _... -- _._.__ - To the. Cha itman, Subcommittee on Commerce, Housirg , and Transportation and the Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs Chairman, Committee on the Bis’:rict of Columbi> House of Repres,cntatives t in your litter of December 2, 1975, you requested --a iegal’opinion >n the binding nature of the agreements between the Washington Metropolitan Area ...
Date Nov. 22, 1976 Report No. CED-77-5 Title

Government Operations: Federal Funds Used in Chicago To Procure, and Later Replace, Unreliable Communication Equipment

RiZ.URT OF THE ~~M~ROLJ,lZ~ GEIWW4.L OF THE UNITED STATES - Federal Fun@ Used In Chicago To Procure, -And Later Replace, -Unreliable -Communication Equipment . Urban Mass TransportaQon Administration Department of Yranspktation The &ban Mass Transpkte~on Administratim granted tha -Chicago Transit Authority about $6.1 millii from 1968 through 1975 to acqu,ire -an advanced bus COlWIlUn*bti3n w-m- J-...
Date Oct. 5, 1976 Report No. FGMSD-76-51 Title

National Defense: Twenty-Seven Years' Experience with Defense Industrial Funds

- REPORT TO THE CONGRESS I11111111All llllllll lllll 1111111111111111 Ill1 LM100247 27 Years' Experience With Defense Industrial Funds Department of Defense - 1 - _ . .- - ,. -- .tomers for the goods and services furnished. Defense customers obtain money to pay through the appropriation process. Tsar. Upon removal. the report Cover date should be noted hereon. . ,- - ‘.‘-i-*-t-” -;, ; 6i FGM...
Date Jan. 1, 1974 Report No. 091046 Title

Financial Management: Management of the Capital Investment Process

Date March 8, 1971 Report No. 089356 Title

Financial Management: Financial Activities of Missouri River Basin Integrated Projects for Fiscal Year 1969

c MK . U.S. Bureau of Reclama~non James M. IngSeb -2- ITe were advrsd that. the rehaaalxution and beeterme~lt work przaan~.ly involved rcplaeement of tnnlkn*d earth water slrpply and dnstribut~on works Trath prpe or ConcreeP lined facil~tl@r* In SoMe instances t1-e *c?w fac.i5rtles WeKe placecl in the same locafiron as p..?ror facnl1tnes, Whlle Xl ooher YXIstances they were relocated and old facll...
Date May 28, 1968 Report No. B-114868 Title

Civil Rights: Need To Improve System for Managing Capitalized Equipment in the Bureau of Indian Affairs

REPORT TO THE CONGRESS FILE Need To Improve System f%r Managing Capitalized Equipment.h The Bureau Of Indian Affairs E-114868 Department of the interior BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES _ MAY28,1968 75om/caw=- COMPTROLLER GENER4L WC.d”lNCiToN OF DC THE xls4a UNITED STATES B-l 14868 President of the of the Senate and the iHouse of Representatives To the Speaker The General Accounti...
Date June 21, 1966 Report No. B-114886 Title

Budget and Spending: Report on Improvements in the Budget Presentation of Proposed Major Capital Expenditures, the Alaska Railroad, Department of the Interior

REPORT TO F LE THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BUDGET PRESENTATION OF PROPOSED MAJOR CAPITAL EXPENDITURES THE ALASKA RAILROAD DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES JUNE 1966 lkg/I7#7~ 8V3 COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. Z0548 B- 114886 To the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives ...