Vol. 20 No. 1, February 2004
Index
- Financing the future of Government--Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- GFOA preconference seminars June 11-12, 2004: make the most of your travel to GFOA's 2004 annual conference!(Government Finance Officers Association) (Calendar)
- By the members, for the members.
- Commission recommends overhaul of Philadelphia Tax system.
- Survey indicates CPFO designation a career enhancer.
- State declares Pittsburgh 'distressed'.
- Local Tax Policy: a Federalist Perspective.
- State budgets still struggling despite recovering economy.
- GASB issues technical bulletin on tobacco settlement proceeds.
- Public finance professionals predict good year for municipal market.
- The citizen's guide to the Nashville budget: providing better information in better ways.
- IIA and GAO work to clarify standards differences.
- Bringing Rigor to cutback management: Eugene's constrained prioritization process.
- A new model for fiscal regionalism: greater Racines plan for overcoming fiscal disparity.
- Budgeting for excellence: how the university of Missouri-Kansas City transformed its budget process using the NACSLB standards.
- The GFOA and professionalism local government.
- Pension investment policies: why, how, and to what effect? Pension investment policies that thoughtfully address all of the elements in GFOA's recommended practice can go a long way toward helping public pension systems grow assets and deliver retirement benefits.
- The CPFO program, state training, and local career development: strategically linking national certification to state training programs and government career development programs recognizes employee accomplishments, enhances recruitment and retention, and professionalizes the practice of public finance.
- Is your tax assessment and collection system taxing you? Modern assessment and taxation systems offer functional improvements and system openness that were unthinkable when many legacy systems were written.
- Busy legislative agenda includes key state, local issues: GFOA will continue to monitor key issues of importance to state and local finance during a busy legislative agenda complicated by election-year politics.
- GASB proposes change to forthcoming OPEB guidance: the GASB recently issued a revised exposure draft on other postemployment benefits that would alter the treatment of implicit rate subsidies in favor of even greater accrual.
- Adapting fiscal systems to a changing environment.
- Calendar.
- State budget quandaries: any heroes out there?