Chair Joel Black says the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) is about to launch a 16-part video series designed to help elected officials make sense of the sprawling government financial reports they’re asked to vote on.
Speaking during a Financial Accounting Foundation Oversight Committee meeting on February 20, 2026, Black framed the project as part of GASB’s education mission—and as a response to a practical reality: many policymakers are not going to read lengthy guidance documents to decode lengthy annual reports.
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