General Accounting Office

General Accounting Office
The accounting and auditing office of the United States, headed by the Comptroller General, and the Assistant Comptroller General, of the United States, having a European Branch and a Far East Branch, and various Divisions for distinct parts of the work, such as Defense Accounting and Auditing Division, Civil Accounting and Auditing Division, and Field Operations Division.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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