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1. This is an interesting article. My view is that most ordinary citizens won’t understand anything about fiscal deficit and other terms used in this article. 2. My simple suggestion is that all governments follow commercial system of accounting which just needs maintaining record of all transactions of expenditure and income on accrual basis. Once this is done, the so-called difficulty in arriving at figure of fiscal deficit can be considerably lessened. 3. We are aware of fact that listed companies follow and implement provisions in the Companies Act and also SEBI’s guidelines to regarding disclosure of important financial information in specific formats. If both Central and all State governments strictly follow commercial system of accounting, as mentioned earlier, and accordingly prepare statements of financial performance in proper formats, there won’t be any secrecy around fiscal deficit figures.
1. This is an interesting article. My view is that most ordinary citizens won’t understand anything about fiscal deficit and other terms used in this article. 2. My simple suggestion is that all governments follow commercial system of accounting which just needs maintaining record of all transactions of expenditure and income on accrual basis. Once this is done, the so-called difficulty in arriving at figure of fiscal deficit can be considerably lessened. 3. We are aware of fact that listed companies follow and implement provisions in the Companies Act and also SEBI’s guidelines to regarding disclosure of important financial information in specific formats. If both Central and all State governments strictly follow commercial system of accounting, as mentioned earlier, and accordingly prepare statements of financial performance in proper formats, there won’t be any secrecy around fiscal deficit figures.