Accounting for Veterans' Educational Assistance Benefits

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate accrual basis accounting as an alternative for accounting for the cost of GI Bill and VEAP veteran's educational assistance benefits. The history of veteran's educational assistance benefits. The history of veterans' educational assistance and current accounting methods are reviewed. The study suggests pension accounting techniques and inputs to a cost model as a basis to allocate the entitlements' cost.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA148407

Entities

People

  • Ned A. Broyles

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Cost Models
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Federal Budgets
  • Financial Management
  • Law
  • Money
  • Organizational Structure
  • Second World War
  • Students
  • United States
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Business

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