[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 98 (Thursday, May 21, 1998)] [Notices] [Pages 27973-27974] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 98-13638] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Cost Accounting Standards Board Review Panel; Notice of Public Meeting The Cost Accounting Standards Board (CASB) Review Panel was established in March 1998 to study, analyze, and assess the mission of the CASB in light of recent federal acquisition reforms. Formed at the request of Congress, the panel includes members from government, industry, and the accounting profession. It is anticipated that the panel will conclude its studies, analyses, and deliberations by the end of the current year and issue a report with recommendations to the Congress in early 1999. In conducting its work, the panel is seeking to obtain a broad spectrum of views from all interested parties including those in the government contracting community, academia, the accounting profession, and industry. Meetings of the panel for the purpose of obtaining views from the public will take place on June 16 and June 17, 1998, between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. and June 18, 1998, between 9 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. The panel is particularly interested in views concerning: (1) The Cost Accounting Standards Board's mission in a rapidly evolving integrated civil- military industry; (2) costs, benefits, and risk assessment in the application of cost accounting standards to government contractors (including differences based on industry, segment, type of cost, character of goods or services, contract type, and so forth); (3) the relationship of cost accounting standards to generally accepted accounting principles, activity-based cost systems, and cost allowability principles (including levels of complexity, overlap, duplication, conflict, and so forth). The panel will convene at the U.S. General Accounting Office, Staats Briefing Room, 441 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 20548. The meetings will be open to the public, however, attendance at each session will be limited to the seating available. Entry to the GAO Building is obtained by clearance which must be granted in advance of the meeting. Those who would like to make presentations and those otherwise planning to attend should contact Mr. Ralph Dawn at 202-512- 4501 by June 10, 1998. A written summary of remarks for those making presentations must be submitted by June 10, 1998, with a complete written statement to be submitted by June 15, 1998. In addition, interested individuals are invited to make suggestions to the panel [[Page 27974]] regarding (1) topics that the panel should consider, and (2) names of individuals with applicable expertise that the panel should hear from. Those suggestions should be sent via the CASB Review Panel's web page at http://www.gao.gov or by leaving recorded messages at 202-512-4501. Ralph C. Dawn, Staff Director, Cost Accounting Standards Board Review Panel. [FR Doc. 98-13638 Filed 5-20-98; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 1610-01-P