Veterans organizations came under scrutiny of Alison Young, an investigative reporter in Knight Ridder's Washington bureau. The report included two stories, one about accounting practices and the other about spending patterns.
Setting this apart from run of the mill reporting are a couple of spreadsheets that summarize the financial statements and corporate interlocking relationships of various groups (the link is to the sidebar that includes links to the spreadsheets, not a direct link. It's a promising development to see this kind of primary research in the mainstream press.
And it's not everyday that you see a reporter digging into an accounting rule like the AICPA SOP 98-2 to understand the implication of joint cost policies on performance ratios.
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