Non-Budget Accounts in the United States

Accounts for Purposes Other Than Budget Presentation in the Federal Budget Process

Meaning of Non-Budget Accounts in the congressional and executive budget processes (GAO source):

Guide to U.S. Federal Accounts for Purposes other than Budget Presentation (Budget Process)

• Non-Budget Accounts
• Clearing Accounts
• Deposit Fund Accounts
• Foreign Currency Fund Accounts
• Suspense Accounts
• Transfer Appropriation Accounts

Resources

See Also

• Federal Appropriations
• Entries about the United States Budget Process in the Encyclopedia (including Non-Budget Accounts)
• Public Debt

Further Reading

• Legislatures and the budget process: the myth of fiscal control

  (J Wehner, 2010)

• Reconcilable Differences?: Congress, the Budget Process, and the Deficit (JB Gilmour, 1990)
• Fiscal institutions and fiscal performance

  (JM Poterba, J von Hagen, 2008)