Bureau of the Fiscal Service Bureau of the Fiscal Service The Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service) is a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, an agency of the United States federal government. The mission of the Fiscal Service is to promote the financial integrity and operational efficiency of the U.S. government through exceptional accounting, financing, collections, payments, and shared services. Their vision is to transform financial management and the delivery of shared services in the federal government. They collaborate with and help other government organizations raise the level of their performance by utilizing modern business practices and emerging technology for federal
Sense-for-sense translation verbo verbum curabit reddere / fidus interpretes": "not to try to render them word for word [like some] faithful translator." Some have read that passage in Horace differently: In John Dryden’s 1680 preface to his translation of Ovid's Epistles, he proposed dividing translation into three parts called: metaphrase, paraphrase and imitation. Metaphrase is word-for-word and line by line translation from one language into another. Paraphrase is sense-for-sense translation where the message of the author is kept but his words are not so strictly followed as his sense, which too can be altered or amplified. Imitation is the use of either