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A Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR), now a government accounting standard, found its first roots with the establishment of the “National Committee on Municipal Accounting” (or NCMA, a private association) in 1934. In 1946 standards transitioned into another private association, based in Chicago, called the Government Financial Officers Association.