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The '''Governmental Accounting Standards Board''' (GASB) is currently the source of generally accepted accounting principles ([[US GAAP]]) used by State and Local governments in the [[United States of America]]. As with most of the entities involved in creating GAAP in the United States, it is a private, non-governmental, organization.

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