The U.S. General Accounting Office

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This paper discusses the history, purpose and background of the Government Accounting (GAO) as well as the duties that the office is responsible for. It reviews literature that illustrates the office in action and in summary discusses whether the GAO is performing a valuable and vital task to the public or is a waste of money.

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"During the last few years there has been a public outcry and demand to investigate government spending. The public was brought stories by the media about the government paying thousands of dollars for toilet seats, and spending hundreds of dollars on a screwdriver and other such tools. When the reports began to surface about wasted government spending the public became angry. Lobbyists across the nation began to demand an accounting of not only tax dollars but also why they were being spent the way they were."

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