Part of the answer that the officials gave us is that it was a lack of systems and technology. Surely in 2012 we can make some progress in that regard. There didn't seem to be a lack of desire to move to a better future when it came to transparency and accountability.
I want to talk about the process, though. Let's say that someday we do get to a point where we have better transparency and accountability. In a perfect world, you'd have estimates; then at some point there'd be revised estimates, which are expenditures up to a certain amount, which may revise up or down, and then actuals.
There are always some challenges with the lag on the actuals. We've studied this a little bit, but can you think about that cycle, that annual or even multi-year cycle? Is there something that you've identified in your studies that you could change to actually get better alignment between the estimates, the revised estimates, and the actuals? Anybody running an organization has to deal with these kinds of things. Can you comment on that, perhaps in terms of introducing a budget at a different time or compressing the reporting cycle?