Vol. 21 No. 1, February 2005
Index
- Finance officers and the leadership imperative.
- Electronic payments exceed check payments for the first time.
- ICMA: e-government improves communication and customer service.
- State revenue pressures ease, but expenditure concerns remain.
- Updated jobs report shows some metros strong, others still struggling.
- CalPERS announces plan to reform executive compensation practices.
- Letter to the editors.
- Fitch ratings: rising health care costs taking a toll on local government finances.
- Unlocking the potential of your employees: the not-so-secret secrets of motivational leadership.
- What does leadership in public finance mean to you?
- A new model for training public sector leaders: the role of self-other perceptions in leadership development.
- Financial leadership for the 21st century: an interview with five public sector leaders.
- Collateralized mortgage obligations: are they suitable for public investors?
- Revenues got you down? Start with your revenue policies.
- Winning the war for talent: Part I--the challenges: the impending retirement boom and resulting worker shortage is one of many workforce challenges facing government agencies of all types and at all types.
- GFOA takes ERP procurement methodology to Canada.
- Watching Washington: what to look for in 2005: from tax policy to health care reform, the 109th Congress will tackle a host of issues with important implications for state and local governments.
- New GASB guidance for employers in cost-sharing pension plans: a new technical bulletin on pension and other postemployment benefits clarifies some of the practical differences concerning the proper application of two GASB statements on this topic.
- Everything you ever wanted your elected officials to know about budgeting (but were afraid to tell them).
- Calendar.
- On the ludicrous search for the magical performance system.