Vol. 21 No. 4, August 2005
Index
- Predictive leadership for a rapidly changing world.
- Expanding the Frontiers of Government Finance: 2005 annual conference recap.
- Meet your new president-elect and Executive Board members.
- Stale-dated checks ripe for fraud, investigation finds.
- Letter to the editors.
- NYC receives highest ever rating from Standard and Poor's.
- The Central Post Office: making your life easier and the market more efficient.
- Understanding municipal derivatives.
- Auction rate securities: a primer for finance officers.
- Navigating the municipal bond market.
- The road to fiscal sustainability: five principles of effective financial planning.
- Priming the revenue pump: Little Rock's business license collection program.
- Optimizing funds with cash flow forecasting: by involving operating departments in planning and prioritizing organization-wide spending in light of cash receipts, governments can avoid the costs of short-term borrowing and/or liquidating long-term investments.
- How much retirement can you afford? As retirement approaches, financial planning shifts from resource accumulation to resource use. A good retirement planning budget is the last piece of the retirement planning puzzle--one that deserves significant attention.
- YieldAdvantage: bringing efficiency to GFOA members: the process of investing funds can be time-consuming and labor intensive. GFOA's newest service, an Internet based auction platform called YieldAdvantage, streamlines the investment process and drives up yields.
- Protecting tax-exempt bonds and tax incentives: a recent appeals court decision and the ongoing debate over tax reform at the federal level have raised serious concerns in the public finance community about the future of tax incentives and tax-exempt bonds.
- Pollution remediation obligations: the GASB's preliminary views document on accounting and financial reporting for pollution remediation obligations marks a departure from traditional accounting practice.
- Turning around America's most unpopular institution.
- Calendar.
- Collaborate or collapse--tough New England message.