There's always been a certain ragged glory to Gomez. ?How We Operate? retains and revitalizes that glory - and presents it in a more immediately gripping form. This is certainly the most cohesive record we've made. And yet it remains stylistically genre-less.

The offense is always going to get all the credit and the glory, ... We pride ourselves on getting the job done and staying behind the scenes. Now that we're winning, people are saying, 'Hey, they can play defense, too.'

The benefits are to people who are trying to use information about the fiscal position and fiscal performance of governments. The primary purpose of this standard is to get better consistency in the way taxes are reported and better quality of reporting, in the sense that they would be reporting more accurately to reflect the real economic resource flows associated with taxes.

If a government chooses to implement public sector accounting standards, in almost all cases it will imply a significant increase in accounting effort, and the reason for that is quite simple: because most governments account extremely badly for all of their financial transactions. Implementing the set of standards generally, and this one in particular, would mean that governments would have to improve their accounting systems.

We want to go back to the glory days,

His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.