Not sure what to tell you. The link worked fine for me and I don't have a login. As the sibling said, the audited financial statements take a while to complete. But budgets and financial statements and reconciliations between them are public, have to be by law, and you're also free to sit in on the legislative sessions when the budgets are approved. None of this is "easy" but I don't know what people honestly expect. They can't just open up the agency ERPs to anyone without an account, for obvious reasons.
I see this entire comment didn't go over well. People love to shit on governments. I used to be a budget officer in the US Army, in charge of the 1st Cav's efforst to digitize all records at the time the DoD was attempting to produce the first GAAP-compliant auditable financial statements ever in its history. We were digging out paper receipts from filing cabinets in rooms people had forgotten existed to upload into the SAP ERP, an extremely time-intensive and error-prone process, at the same time the sequester was going on and all the civilian staff had been furloughed, and half the headquarters was deployed to Afghanistan in the middle of this.
This is actually hard. Governments are held to much higher transparency and accountability standards than private companies, all while constantly having their own budgets cut and staff reduced, with no investment in automation or interoperability between disparate information systems and sources of truth.
People just expect this to be magic and free for some reason.
I see this entire comment didn't go over well. People love to shit on governments. I used to be a budget officer in the US Army, in charge of the 1st Cav's efforst to digitize all records at the time the DoD was attempting to produce the first GAAP-compliant auditable financial statements ever in its history. We were digging out paper receipts from filing cabinets in rooms people had forgotten existed to upload into the SAP ERP, an extremely time-intensive and error-prone process, at the same time the sequester was going on and all the civilian staff had been furloughed, and half the headquarters was deployed to Afghanistan in the middle of this.
This is actually hard. Governments are held to much higher transparency and accountability standards than private companies, all while constantly having their own budgets cut and staff reduced, with no investment in automation or interoperability between disparate information systems and sources of truth.
People just expect this to be magic and free for some reason.