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New Mexico Society of CPAs — September 4, 2026
America Surpassed $40 Trillion in National Debt — Is This How Much It Owes?
Michael Doorley, CPA, advocate for federal financial civics
Read the newsletterIllinois CPA Society — Insight Magazine, August 26, 2026
What's Behind America's $40 Trillion Debt?
Michael Doorley, CPA, advocate for federal financial civics
View article onlineMinnesota Society of CPAs — August 26, 2026
America Surpassed $40 Trillion in National Debt — Is This How Much It Owes?
Michael Doorley, CPA, advocate for federal financial civics
Read on MNCPA.orgMontana Society of CPAs — August 21, 2026
America Surpassed $40 Trillion in National Debt — Is This How Much It Owes?
Michael Doorley, CPA, advocate for federal financial civics
View on montana.cpaTennessee Society of CPAs — July/August 2026
Tennessee CPA Journal
Michael Doorley, CPA, advocate for federal financial civics
View article onlineMichigan Association of Certified Public Accountants — July 2026
America's Least-Discussed Annual Report: Why the Financial Report of the United States Government Matters to CPAs
Michael Doorley, CPA, advocate for federal financial civics
View article onlineOhio Society of CPAs — May/June/July 2026
CPA Voice
Michael Doorley, CPA, advocate for federal financial civics
View article onlineConnecticut Society of CPAs — July 2026
One of the Best-Kept Secrets in America: What If One of the Most Important Financial Documents in America Is Also One of the Least Known?
Michael Doorley, CPA, advocate for federal financial civics
View article onlineArkansas Society of Certified Public Accountants — July 2026
Hidden in Plain Sight: What CPAs Should Know About the Financial Report of the United States Government
Michael Doorley, CPA, advocate for federal financial civics
Nevada State CPA Association — July 2026
Financial Report of the U.S. Government: One of the Best Kept Secrets
Michael Doorley, CPA, advocate for federal financial civics
View article onlineNew Mexico Society of CPAs — June 2026
Financial Report of the U.S. Government: One of the Best Kept Secrets
Michael Doorley, CPA, advocate for federal financial civics
Wyoming Society of Certified Public Accountants — June 2026
Beyond the Deficit
Michael Doorley, CPA, advocate for federal financial civics
View article onlineHawaii Society of CPAs — June 2026
America's Hidden Financial Statements: Why the Federal Government's Financial Report Matters
Michael Doorley, CPA, advocate for federal financial civics
Montana Society of CPAs — June 2026
The Financial Report of the United States Government: Why It Matters to CPAs
Michael Doorley, CPA — published in the Montana Society of Certified Public Accountants
View on montana.cpa
Harvard Club of New York
Lead — U.S. National Debt Special Interest Group
Michael Doorley, CPA, leads the U.S. National Debt Special Interest Group at the Harvard Club of New York — bringing together club members to discuss, often with invited experts, the economy, financial position and the national debt of the United States.
View on LinkedInWest Virginia Society of CPAs — 2026
Hidden in Plain Sight: Why CPAs Should Pay Attention to the Federal Government's Annual Financial Report
Michael Doorley, CPA, advocate for federal financial civics
View article onlineVermont Society of CPAs — May 2026
One of America's Best Kept Secrets — The Financial Report of the United States Government
Michael Doorley, CPA — published in the Vermont Society of Certified Public Accountants
Minnesota Society of CPAs — May 2026
The Financial Report of the United States Government: Why It Matters
Read on MNCPA.orgIreland-U.S. Council — 2026 Annual Report
How Much Is the U.S. National Debt, Really?
Michael Doorley, CPA — published contribution, 2026
New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants — May 2026
Financial Report of the U.S. Government: One of the Best-Kept Secrets
Article published in the New Jersey Society of CPAs — PDF reprint
BoardIQ — April 21, 2020
Opinion: It's Time to Review Treasury's Risk Disclosure
Michael Doorley, CPA — published opinion piece
The CPA Journal — New York State Society of CPAs · Oct/Nov 2020 · 60th Anniversary Edition
Are CPAs Prepared to Discuss the U.S. Government's Financial Position?
View article onlineWorking Paper
America's Two Deficits
Michael Doorley, CPA — Draft White Paper — comments appreciated
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U.S. Government's Annual Financial Report for FY 2025 Released
Treasury Secretary and Heads of OMB and GAO Say the Report is Important to All Americans
People often ask, so what's the Bottom Line? Americans do not know our government's Bottom Line — it's not the widely quoted Budget Deficit. It's much worse.
— Michael Doorley, CPA
SLEEPY HOLLOW, NY — The Department of the Treasury released the Financial Report of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2025 on March 19. The report, prepared by Treasury in coordination with OMB, is structured like a publicly traded company annual report. It warns the reader over 30 times that the government is on an "unsustainable fiscal path." The Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of OMB, and the Comptroller General of the United States at the GAO state that "the information discussed in the Financial Report is important to all Americans."
Yet Congressman Jim Cooper, former U.S. Representative (D-TN-5), once called the report "one of America's best kept secrets" — despite it being "a more important look at the federal government than probably any other document."
Michael Doorley, CPA, commented: "It's not the widely quoted Budget Deficit. Frankly, it is a much greater loss every year, and it can be found in the audited Financial Report. Our government, economists, and financial advisers rarely mention the Bottom Line. Americans should know the Bottom Line and that the government is telling us that they are on an unsustainable fiscal path."
Doorley continued: "This is both an accounting and transparency issue. And it's well past the time for CPAs to be contributing voices discussing the country's financial results. Unlike other voices, CPAs often prepare, review, audit, opine, and report to senior management and boards on an organization's financial results — and are licensed by the states with mandated ethics requirements, uniquely qualifying them as capable and trustworthy voices in these discussions."
Speaker Bios
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Michael Doorley, CPA, advocate for federal financial civics, is a public speaker who translates the Financial Report of the United States Government into plain language for civic, corporate, and community audiences.
Michael Doorley, CPA, advocate for federal financial civics, is a Certified Public Accountant with more than four decades of experience in external audit, internal audit, and financial roles. He has dedicated his speaking career to making the Financial Report of the United States Government — the federal government's own audited financial statements — accessible to general audiences. His presentations are nonpartisan, grounded in the government's own numbers, and designed to inform and engage audiences with or without a financial background.
Michael Doorley, CPA, advocate for federal financial civics, has spent more than four decades working as a Certified Public Accountant in external audit, internal audit, and financial roles. But it is a different kind of accounting that drives his speaking career — the accounting of the United States Government itself.
Every year, the U.S. Department of the Treasury publishes the Financial Report of the United States Government: a comprehensive, audited document covering the nation's assets, liabilities, revenues, costs, long-term obligations, and fiscal outlook. It is, in many ways, the most consequential financial report in the world. And almost no one reads it.
Michael's presentations bring this document to life for civic associations, professional organizations, colleges and universities, veterans groups, corporate boards, and community audiences across the country. His approach is nonpartisan, rigorous, and accessible — grounded in the government's own numbers, delivered with the calm authority of a seasoned accountant who believes an informed public is essential to a healthy democracy.
Media Appearances
Michael has been featured on radio programs and media outlets discussing the Financial Report of the United States Government.
The Rude Awakening Show
Ocean 98.1 FM WOCM — Weekdays 6–10am
Suggested Interview Topics
Michael is available for interviews, podcast appearances, and panel discussions on any of the following topics.
What the Financial Report of the United States Government actually says — and why it matters
The difference between the widely quoted budget deficit and the government's true "bottom line"
The rapidly rising U.S. National Debt — and why it matters
Unfunded liabilities: what Social Security and Medicare obligations really look like on a balance sheet
Why the federal government's own auditors have issued a disclaimer of opinion for 27 consecutive years
Long-term fiscal sustainability: what the government's own 75-year projections show
How an engaged citizen can read and understand the Financial Report themselves
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