Vol. 19 No. 4, August 2003
Index
- Keeping pace with information technology.
- Back in the Big Apple: 2003 Annual Conference recap.
- Meet your new president-elect and Executive Board members.
- More good news for D.C.
- Paying GASB?
- Committee recommends merging City of Omaha, Douglas County.
- Brookings: impact fees good for economic development.
- New releases.
- Poison pills and white knights: doing business with an ERP industry in transition.
- Bringing ERP to California's trial courts.
- It's about time(keeping)! The ins and outs of time and attendance software.
- Planning for CRM success.
- Managing your virtual world: internal controls for enterprise technology.
- Making the grade? ERP and public school districts.
- 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.
- 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.
- Portal Technology for the public sector: lessons from Lawson software's user conference.
- 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.
- 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.
- Value-based health care procurement.
- GFOA events.
- State and provincial association events.
- 25 years later: cities still battle the fallout of prop 13.