Accounting: Government Sources

Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on.

WolframAlpha's aim is to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything.

A wide range of tables, articles, and data that describe and measure elements of the U.S. tax system.

Federal documents from all three branches of government.

Find historical and current federal publications.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress. Often called the "congressional watchdog," GAO investigates how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars.

Items of current interest - new programs, recent guidance or timely reminders

The Treasury Department is the executive agency responsible for promoting economic prosperity and ensuring the financial security of the United States. The Department is responsible for a wide range of activities such as advising the President on economic and financial issues, encouraging sustainable economic growth, and fostering improved governance in financial institutions.

Since its founding on July 30, 1953, the U.S. Small Business Administration has delivered millions of loans, loan guarantees, contracts, counseling sessions and other forms of assistance to small businesses. SBA provides assistances primarily through its four programmatic functions: Access to Capital (Business Financing), Entrepreneurial Development, Government Contracting, and Advocacy.

As the implementation and enforcement arm of Presidential policy government-wide, OMB carries out its mission through five critical processes: Budget development and execution, Management, Coordination and review of all significant Federal regulations by executive agencies, 4.Legislative clearance and coordination, and 5.Executive Orders and Presidential Memoranda to agency heads and officials, the mechanisms by which the President directs specific government-wide actions by Executive Branch officials.

Accounting offices at the SEC are organized such that the Commission has an Office of the Chief Accountant that is responsible for establishing and enforcing accounting and auditing policy. An example of the kind of information found here is financial reporting related enforcement actions concerning civil lawsuits brought by the Commission in federal court and notices and orders concerning the institution and/or settlement of administrative proceedings.

NAICS is the standard used by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy.NAICS was developed under the auspices of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and adopted in 1997.

This site provides access to the 5 separative financial statements which account for the outstanding debt recorded by the Bureau of the Public Debt; the Treasury Bulletin, Schedules of Federal Debt, and Historical Debt Outstanding.

EDGAR is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's system for disclosing required data from U.S. public companies.