Data analytics company Palantir is a major US defense contractor. Its shares were up 65% this year before Wednesday.

It turns out that federal budget accounting rules are archaic, little more than a cash flow statement for most agencies. We demand and receive higher precision in accounting from large American ...

where Elon Musk will face an accounting system that has never passed an audit and decades of rampant price gouging by defense contractors. On Thursday, Trump floated cutting the defense budget in ...

The 2024 Budget marked a significant milestone by allocating the highest-ever amount to the gender budget, accounting for 6.8 per cent of the total Budget or 1 per cent of GDP. While this is a ...

Union budget 2025-26 will be the second full budget of the NDA government since assuming power for the third time under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is ...

The budget process is broken down into two steps: A budget resolution, which is a non-binding blueprint that outlines fiscal goals but does not carry the force of law. (House and Senate committees ...

Citing the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS), Lee said several major hurdles have prevented the Executive Yuan from resolving the issue, as Han has suggested. There is a ...

America’s budget looms front and centre over President Trump’s agenda. At stake is not just whether the US can avoid another government shutdown, but more importantly, whether it can bring the ...

Released a day before the Union Budget 2025, the report will highlight key trends across sectors like agriculture, industry and services while offering policy recommendations to address challenges ...

“This summary is just one example of dozens of budget, accounting and financial ‘irregularities’ that have been a constant distraction during the FY24 and FY25 school years,” she wrot ...

The same principle applies to budgeting. Once you’ve established solid money habits, the next step isn’t just maintaining them — it’s optimizing them for better results. Strategic ...

A budget variance is a periodic measure used by governments, corporations, or individuals to quantify the difference between budgeted and actual figures for a particular accounting category.