Christine Kuglin

The Gov Fin 2024 conference put a spotlight on the implications of the Financial Data Transparency Act.

I volunteered as a conference host to meet the people in the field doing the hard work of government financial management every day.

Municipal bond investors and government regulators could benefit from easier access to consistent, machine-readable financial data from government bond issuers.

Whether a qualified, disclaimer or adverse opinion is given depends on the nature and scale of the problem, and some states had lots of problems.

The trend toward digitization of government data has been affirmed as a priority by the passage of recent legislation.

Isn't it reasonable to expect that state governments' financial reporting have full accountability and thus, receive clean audit reports? Often, they do not.

Google's new AI tool answered some questions about whether it makes more sense to become a CPA or attorney, or even take the exams.

A new law promises to increase the accessibility of government financial information.

The movement to convert documents to machine-readable data that computer applications like spreadsheets can use is not new.

Complexity causes the data to be unclear, and even obsolete by the time it is reported.