U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars, auditor finds (reuters)

made $2.8 trillion in wrongful adjustments to accounting entries in one quarter alone in 2015, and $6.5 trillion for the year. …. lacked receipts and invoices to support those numbers or simply made them up.

financial statements for 2015 were “materially misstated,” the report concluded. The “forced” adjustments rendered the statements useless because “DoD and Army managers could not rely on the data in their accounting systems when making management and resource decisions.”

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