Public Sector Guidelines

The Public Sector Accounting Board is authorized to publish Guidelines as the need may arise from time to time. These Guidelines set out the Board's interpretations of existing standards, or its opinions on other issues of concern with respect to matters of financial accounting policies and disclosures for which the process of issuing exposure drafts and eventual standards does not apply or cannot be undertaken on a timely basis.

Guidelines are a primary source of GAAP as described in Section PS 1150, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

PSAS

You can find more about the public sector guidelines by selecting the standard you are interested in from the following table:

Title
Guideline PSG 2 - Leased tangible capital assets
Guideline PSG 4 - Funds and reserves
Guideline PSG 5 - Sale-leaseback transactions
Guideline PSG 7 - Tangible capital assets of local governments
Guideline PSG 8 - Purchased intangibles

Correction list for hyphenation

These words serve as exceptions. Once entered, they are only hyphenated at the specified hyphenation points. Each word should be on a separate line.