Omar Alghabra at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On October 5th, 2006. See this statement in context.

October 5th, 2006 / 11:55 a.m.

Liberal

Omar Alghabra Liberal Mississauga—Erindale, ON

Thank you, Madam Chair.

There was a question earlier about the benefits of moving to accrual accounting. One of the things you said is that most of the benefits mean to be intangible and the tangible ones may take a few years to be realized.

Would it be fair to categorize as benefits the enormous costs that we incur on a yearly basis to reconcile the books from cash to accrual at the end of the year?

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