Is the federal government failing to comply with one of the most important “checks” on its power—properly accounting for its taxpayer-funded expenditures?
Fordham Law’s Corporate Law Center will present “Representation Without Accountability,” a public forum on whether financial reporting by the federal government conforms with its constitutional requirements.
DATE: Monday, Jan. 23
TIME: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
PLACE: McNally Amphitheatre, Fordham School of Law, 140 W. 62nd St., New York City
The event is free and open to the public. Registration information is available here.
The featured panelists are:
• Hon. David M. Walker, founder and CEO of Comeback America Initiative and the former comptroller general of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office;
• David Mosso, former vice chair of Financial Accounting Standards Board and the former chair of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board;
• Joseph H. Marren (LAW ’79), president and CEO of KStone Partners LLC; and
• Brian T. Fitzpatrick, associate professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School.
Conference panelists will review the government’s actual expenditures, its current financial reporting, its historic choices about financial reporting and questions surrounding the Statement and Account clause of the U.S. Constitution. They will also discuss proposed reforms.
