I asked my New Zealand colleagues how much time it had taken for them to put their accrual-based accounting system in place. They answered that it had taken them 15 years to successfully change attitudes. In fact, it's a bit like switching from the imperial system of measurement to the metric system. It's another working model. It's not something that happens with a snap of the finger, even though we'd like it to have been done yesterday. You have to educate people.
The members should use multi-year appropriations. Perhaps less emphasis should be placed on money and more on resources. We'll all have to head in that direction. My colleagues always have reservations about money.