Government Finance Review

Keeping pace with information technology.

From the editors

Back in the Big Apple: 2003 Annual Conference recap.

News & Numbers - Government Finance Officers Association

Meet your new president-elect and Executive Board members.

News & Numbers - Government Finance Officers Association

More good news for D.C.

News & Numbers - District of Columbia bond ratings up - Brief Article

Paying GASB?

Governmental Accounting Standards Board

Committee recommends merging City of Omaha, Douglas County.

Brookings: impact fees good for economic development.

News & Numbers - Paying for Prosperity: Impact frees and Job Growth

New releases.

Balancing the Federal Budget - Book Review

Poison pills and white knights: doing business with an ERP industry in transition.

Enterprise resource planning

Bringing ERP to California's trial courts.

Order in the Courts! - Enterprise resource planning supports Court Accounting and Reporting System

It's about time(keeping)! The ins and outs of time and attendance software.

Planning for CRM success.

Customer relationship management - Related article: New York City's 311 Project - Related article: Philadelphia's Inside-Out Approach to CRM

Managing your virtual world: internal controls for enterprise technology.

Making the grade? ERP and public school districts.

Enterprise resource planning

Audit committees that work: a properly constituted audit committee is an important tool for ensuring the independence of the external auditor and thus the reliability of the financial statement audit.

Best Practices

Career paths of local government finance professionals: a recent survey of GFOA members shed light on a relatively unexplored topic--the career development and job satisfaction of local government finance officers.

Management & Careers

Portal Technology for the public sector: lessons from Lawson software's user conference.

Solutions

Washington, states ignoring needs of local governments: while local governments have borne much of the burden for stepped-up homeland security since 9/11, the federal and state governments have been reluctant to provide financial assistance.

Federal Focus

GASB mandates immediate expanded disclosure for derivatives: the GASB's new guidance on derivatives disclosure is designed to increase the public's understanding of the significance of derivatives to a government's financial position.

The Accounting Angle - Governmental Accounting Standards Board - Technical Bulletin 2003-1

Value-based health care procurement.

The Bookshelf - Health Care Purchasing: A Value-Based Model - Book Review

GFOA events.

Government Finance Officers Association - Calendar

State and provincial association events.

Calendar

25 years later: cities still battle the fallout of prop 13.

Commentary - Proposition 13 and property tax caps